Helping PDS values thrive during lockdown
How are we using our values to maintain and improve the wellbeing of PDS staff? Head of Digital Capability Julie Byrne reflects on a tumultuous few months and what's been happening.
Julie Byrne
Julie is capability lead at PDS.
What we learned from an HR and capability away day
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Community, Curiosity, Experts in what we do, Focus on core work
The HR and capability team had never had an away day before so they've written about what they did and what they learned from taking a day away from the office.
Confidence as a cultural value
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Rachel Christopher and Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Confidence, Cultural values, Open
We recently held another of our values days. This time we focused on confidence and the different ways you can have confidence in work. Rachel Christopher and Julie Byrne have blogged about the day itself.
Get involved in mentoring
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Care, Collaboration culture, Community, Cultural values
Julie Byrne talks about the latest work she's been doing on capability, including setting up a mentoring framework for PDS that will help with staff development and retention.
What capability means to us
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Cultural values, Recruitment
Capability for us is making sure we have the right skills to deliver a digital service for Parliament. I lead on capability in the Digital Development directorate so here's an update on what we've done so far and what we want to do in the future.
Trying new things and making recruitment better
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Recruitment, Unity without uniformity, Women in digital
At the end of August, the development team set up a recruitment task force. The aim was to research and test ideas on how to improve recruitment at PDS. We talk about what we've done, what we've learned and what's next for the task force.
PDS at Silicon Milkroundabout. We’ll definitely be back
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Community, Digital strategy, Recruitment, Unity without uniformity
Julie Byrne blogs about PDS attending the latest Silicon Milkroundabout and how we brought our Digital Principles to life at the event.
We are the (agile) champions of the world
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Digital strategy, Experts in what we do
... ok, of PDS for now - but world domination can follow.
Recruitment as a product: building a ‘task force’ recruitment isn't always easy
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Product Management, Recruitment
As many of you will be only too familiar with, recruiting people into technical roles can be particularly challenging. Here at PDS we're dedicated to finding better ways to deal with these challenges.
Work experience with website alpha
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Julie Byrne, Posted on:
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Curiosity, Data and search, Experts in what we do, Open, parliament.uk
Matthew Bwye Lera, an 18 year old student spent 3 weeks on work experience at PDS. He talks about what he learnt during his time in Parliament.