by Matt Turner | Jul 24, 2017 | Workforce Development
“Tell me and I forget, teach me and I may remember, involve me and I learn” Benjamin Franklin In my previous #DigitalStockport blog I described our adoption of the Kanban method and what this means in terms of our approach to visualizing work, our focus on finishing...
by Emma Collingridge | Jun 19, 2017 | Workforce Development
I have been so impressed by and proud of the energy and enthusiasm with which the new Digital service and latterly the core IT service at Stockport Council have adopted agile as a way of working over the past two years. Over the past few months I have been reflecting...
by Matt Turner | Apr 28, 2017 | Workforce Development
If you have walked through the 1st Floor of Stopford House in the past 12 months you will have seen the increased population of colourful boards on display and the frequent congregation of people studiously discussing things in front of them. You may have wondered...
by Jon Chiles | Apr 7, 2017 | Workforce Development
We’ve often mentioned how the Digital by Design programme is adopting new ways of working and introducing a new Agile culture to Stockport Council. Whilst we have brought in many formal processes to our working practices we have also added more casual ways to listen...
by Andy Birds | Feb 24, 2017 | Workforce Development
In Part 1 of today’s blog I looked at using Lean start-up to create an MVP. In this second part I look at some of the common misconceptions and confusions surrounding the MVP. MVPs are frequently used as Misunderstood Value Propositions A common misconception is that...
by Andy Birds | Feb 24, 2017 | Workforce Development
According to the decades-old formula, you write a business case, pitch it to investors or a decision maker, assemble a team, deliver some capabilities/features/functionality and start using it. And somewhere in this sequence of events, you’ll probably suffer a fatal...
