Following the CrowdStrike incident a few days earlier, I guest edited a special edition of the Public Digital Newsletter to bring together articles and views that explained what happened, how it might have been avoided and what might happen next.
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Public Digital: CrowdStrike - a global wake-up call
I’ve published a post on the Public Digital blog with immediate reflections on the CrowdStrike outage which impacted millions of computers around the world.
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DigitalBC: Legacy modernisation - The Why
I’ve recently been interviewed by Jillian Carruthers, Executive Director of the Environment Sustainability Division in the British Columbia Public Service for their #DigitalBC series of videos.
In this video, I talk in detail about how government approaches legacy modernisation projects.
A version of this interview was also published as a podcast.
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O'Reilly: Solving problems with principles
James Stewart and I recently gave a talk at Velocity Conference in Berlin about how to use design principles to solve problems in technology projects
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Public Digital: Building new services around older IT
Working with technology, it’s rare that you get to build something totally new without having to think about systems or services that already exist.
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
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Week notes #10
After a couple of very busy weeks things are starting to calm down and return to normal.
I spent more time on Monday with some of the team working on the DVLA IT transformation. We’re looking at ways to strangle down the complex legacy IT estate to make it simpler to maintain and to make it easier build new services. Given how complex and tightly coupled the existing systems are, this isn’t going to be a simple process.