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  • How we do agile research analysis

    Agile analysis shapes our research Conducting research for agile projects means that we need to work fast, include the whole team and provide clients with opportunities to get involved. We embed research in all our work and remain flexible in our approach. This means sometimes we’re working on a full on eight-week discovery phase and…

  • Keep going!

    Vanessa and I went to a Women in Digital event hosted by the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS). PDS invited us as we built and host their blog, which is actually one of the tools PDS is using to encourage diversity and hire more women and people from minority groups. Along with government departments, suppliers and charities,…

  • UKGovcampX

    Last month was UKGovcampX, an event close to dxw’s heart. I’ve been a regular attendee and sometime campmaker since 2013, but this was my first one since leaving the Civil Service so I was looking forward to seeing colleagues and friends. This isn’t a comprehensive account of the day – just some thoughts. I took…

  • How we have protected GovPress sites from the WordPress REST API vulnerability

    A large number of WordPress sites will have been defaced as a result of a recently disclosed vulnerability in the REST API. Fortunately this did not affect sites hosted with dxw as proactive steps had already been taken to secure client sites. Two weeks ago, the WordPress security team told us and a number of…

  • Delivering a Delivery Manager

    Hello! At the beginning of the January I moved roles to help out as a Delivery Manager at dxw. Why make the change? I’ve been on the development team at dxw for over a year now. While I have been having enormous fun building software for our clients and their users, I wanted to try…

  • The Importance of the Network

    UKGovcamp has just celebrated it’s 10th birthday when over 200 people gathered at the National Audit Office. For those not familiar, it’s an unconference where a fabulous network of people with digital in common and a passion for making government work better, come together to identify and discuss the issues we need to battle. dxw…