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  • How should delivery support and enable service design?

    I’m at Service Design in Government, the annual conference that brings together people that are involved in designing and delivering public services. As a delivery manager, I’m here to not only meet some new people and find out about new tools or techniques dxw can use on projects. I also want to learn from others…

  • Service Design in Government – but what is service design?

    Service Design in Government, the conference for anyone involved in designing or commissioning services for the public sector, has kicked off today in Edinburgh. The conference brings together the very best speakers from both the public and private sector, who work in this space – sharing techniques and ideas via workshops and case studies over…

  • Two thoughts and a plea: reflections on #AgileP

    I spent the morning at Agile Procurement 1.0, a short unconference set up by @rachel0404 and @gogoagilegov. It was a fun morning, with lots of interesting people and good conversation. But, as often with these events, I left wondering what we can actually do to effect some change. @janethughes in her usual inimitable style left…

  • The Techies winners! Best place for developers to work

    Last month we were thrilled to win The Techies award for ‘Best Place for Developers to Work‘, and were treated to an evening at the beautiful M by Montcalm hotel in Shoreditch to celebrate the great work the winners (and shortlisted companies) have done over the past year. But what is it that makes dxw a…

  • Moving on

    They say that all good things must come to an end, and that time has come for me. I’ll soon be leaving dxw to take up a role as Product Manager at Comic Relief. I’m sad to be leaving such a great team here at dxw, but I’m incredibly excited to be moving into a…

  • Today I learnt

    If you’re a previous reader of our blog, you may have seen some previous TiL posts before. At dxw, we use Slack to communicate internally; mostly for sharing information about current projects we’re working on, or for recruitment, events we’re planning and more. However, we have a couple of less serious channels where we like…