A few months ago, I was asked to help one of our services with a new service design project; ‘nothing new’ I thought, but the difference was, that I was asked to mentor the service in doing their own service design work. Initially, I was filled with anxiety about my…

But after the first prototype, that’s out the window…………………….. Sprint planning went well this week. The team all agreed on how the next sprint is being time boxed and sorted what we could achieve. It’s been a bit of a stressful week for me. We have a prototype going out…

Weeknote 26.03.2021 I’m back — I’ve had a couple of weeks off writing, and this week was a short week (using up the annual leave!) but still just as busy. I made a new connection on Twitter this week thanks to one of my service design buddy group members MJP…

Weeknotes — w/c 01/03/2021 Another busy week for our team this week. We were all heavily involved in #servicesweek I really enjoyed a session I co-delivered with my colleague and pal, Alex May I also had my second session with my design group buddies this week and I really…

Week notes w/c 22.02.2021 It’s been an interesting week this week, it feels like I’ve done a lot of tail chasing and trudging, and I’ve not really achieved that much. …

Monday — What?! Did we have a weekend? Who am I, and what am I doing? Had a great project meeting with our fab working group made up of lots of different experts across the business who all work brilliantly together and I am really enjoying working with this…

Week notes — w/c 25/01/2021 I had a four day week this week because I treated myself to a long weekend which was totally delicious. We did a show and tell with our schools this week via Zoom which was successful, and we got a lot of insight from it…

I think my obsession with pineapples only extends to my team; but I was delighted this week when a colleague of mine used some ‘pineapple’ themed test data!! Nothing better than seeing ‘pineapple street’ on a screen! Anyway, this week was a crazy one filled with meetings and process mapping…

Anyone else still feel like they are working in a time warp? I still think its March 2020. Did Christmas happen? Is it really 2021?? Why am I still sat in my Pj’s?! I was lucky enough to not have to work between Christmas and New Year, but it’s taken…