What does responding to change mean in different contexts?| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
We’re did this week go? This work malarkey is a right time sink!| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
This has been a weird week| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Meetups, Bike rides, and Global IT outages| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Rain rain go away| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A mega post of contracting advice| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A week of bitty things.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Meeting lots of folks| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Dutch cycling mega post| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
First weeknote for a very long time.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Self reflection and career planning for 2024 with bonus earworm title!| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Despite a pretty awful journey home from UKGovCamp I’m still buzzing from it and thinking about it. I’m also horribly out of my blogging flow so you’ll have to put up with yet another ‘reflections on UKGovCamp’ post I’m afraid. Before I went. I’ve been thinking about my reflections (meta) and understanding the headspace I was in before I went is important to give context. To summarise it in one word: jaded.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Yesterday the team got together to workshop how we move into the next phase of our project. Up until now we have mainly been in Discovery/Alpha mode, exploring the problem space and sketching out potential solutions. As we move to beta we’re onboarding devs into the team and so it was worth us think about our ways of working an how we communicate effectively between design/research and dev. At the beginning of the day I tried out a new icebreaker for the team.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
In the delivery of a digital service, a discovery is a short period right at the beginning of the project to determine what the problem is and whether it is worth solving. Discoveries should be short, usually no more than a few weeks and should seek to provide just enough confidence to proceed or not. Discoveries are intense and its important that they focus on the right things to help the team progress.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A key part of agile delivery is working out what small changes can deliver the most value. It can be hard to get agreement on what is small enough to be valuable, getting this balance right is extremely difficult and context specific, hence why MVP’s (minimum viable products) are much maligned. There are two main approaches that can be used, you can either ‘slice thin’ deliver a small part of every step of the user journey; or ‘slice deep’ focus your effort on improving one part of ...| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
25 years ago a young and naive me went to university to study Marine Navigation, My hope was that I could use the skills I learnt to travel the world and get paid whilst doing it. To my horrow I learnt fairly quickly that the reality is that most ships are in port for less than 24 hours and most time is spent at sea. After university I found myself in the crazy world of IT and since digital delivery and product management.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Practical tips for product prioritisation from triage.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Weeknotes whilst at NHS Digital| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Weeknotes whilst at NHS Digital| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Weeknotes whilst at NHS Digital| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Weeknotes whilst at NHS Digital| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Weeknotes for the first two weeks at NHS Digital| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A user manual describing the conditions I like to work in, I use this format when starting new teams so everyone knows how everyone else likes to work and we can work out our ways of working to suit.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
The Hase Pino is a semi-recumbent tandem.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Some examples of great collaboration from accross local government in the UK.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A post about my home office, the humble shed.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
How to make onboarding awesome.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Reflections on what I saw and learnt at Mapcamp 2019.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
The most useful things I learnt in my first fully remote job.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
An icebreaker game I ran at Agile in the Ether, designed to demonstrate cognitive load.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A technical overview of how ipv4 addressing works.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A technical overview of the TCP/IP network protocols.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
An overviw of the Open Systems Interconnection model used for computer networking.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
An overview of the basics of data communication concepts| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Overview of the fundamental features of a computer network.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A walkthrough of the phases of an effective project kick off.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A post about how overly-burdensome risk mitigation strategies can increase your risk profile.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
How my team identified an improved our address based search at HM Land Registry.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A walking route in Plymouth, UK taking in some of its histrorical sites.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A walking route in Plymouth, UK taking in some of its histrorical sites.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
An overview of my teams working practices at HM Land Registry.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A list of reasons why open plan offices are terrible for agile teams.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
Some reflections on the limitations of agile sprints.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
A tongue in cheek post about how user research can make your team feel, but you should do it anyway.| Ian Ames - I help multidisciplinary teams deliver services in a user centred ...
An overview of how our teams workflow evolved whilst at HM Land Registry.| ames.world
A mega post of advice about becoming a delivery manager| ames.world
September Monthnote| ames.world
More funemployment shenanigans this week.| ames.world