Posts tagged "Fund Teams Not Projects"

Rebuilding the car tax service in ten weeks in 2014

By replacing a failing legacy system with a working car tax service in just ten weeks, we proved that momentum and iterative delivery manage risk far more effectively than months of traditional planning. This approach turned massive legislative shifts into simple backlog items, demonstrating that 100 days is exactly enough time to prove the ‘art of the possible’ in any complex organisation.
15 May 2026

The bridge to nowhere: Why your ‘Target Architecture' won’t ever deliver

Stop funding fictional target architecture blueprints and start funding empowered, long-lived teams. The traditional, rigid approach is too slow for the age of AI and will never solve your real-world legacy tech problems. It’s time to trade the fiction for empowered teams and clear principles.
31 October 2025

Talking to Parliament about digital government

This week I gave evidence to the Parliament Science and Technology Committee about digital government and the challenges ahead to continue delivering good services to users
27 November 2018