Metrics, measures and indicators help you track and evaluate outcomes. They can tell us if we’re moving in the right direction or not, or if we’ve achieved the outcome we wanted to. Here’s some guiding principles for designing and using them, a few things to bear in mind.| Boring Magic
Discover how we helped the GOV.UK Design System double their release rate in half the time. Learn about the principles behind the four-week cycle, which emphasises autonomy, value delivery, and frequent software releases. It increased team happiness and effectiveness.| Boring Magic
A show & tell done well fosters collaboration, transparency, and continuous improvement within the team and with stakeholders. Here’s some tips to help.| Boring Magic
Software teams are often asked to go faster. There are many factors that influence the speed at which teams can discover, design and deliver solutions, and those factors aren’t always in a team’s control. But Lean principles offer teams a way to analyse and adapt their operating model – their ways of working.| Boring Magic
Breaking your strategy down into smaller, more manageable chunks can help you make more progress sooner. Some things take a long while to achieve, but smaller goals help us celebrate the wins along the way.| Boring Magic
For the last five days, we’ve been looking at how we can make it easier for local planning authorities (LPAs) to provide data to our specifications. Instead of doing that in a standard delivery cycle, the team assembled in London for a design sprint.| Boring Magic
Given the hype around artificial intelligence, it feels worthwhile stating our positions on the technology. We’re open to working on and with it, but there’s a few ideas we’ll bring to the table.| Boring Magic