Doing Windows differently
In a companion piece to our blog post about Apple Macs, Craig Birtles explains how Windows devices are being updated more frequently to keep them safe and performing at their best.
Care
Safeguarding UK Parliament's digital legacy
Senior Digital Archivist Chris Fryer explains why it’s important to preserve our digital past.
How our culture and values helped us complete a large and challenging programme
Jane McCarthy reflects on how her team completed a complex programme with very tight timescales and how the team culture got them through a challenging piece of work (as well as lots of cake).
How PDS women are celebrating International Women's Day
Four women from PDS have written about how they're celebrating International Women's Day, what it means to them, and why #BalanceForBetter is so important.
What we did with our team health survey results
One of our director's objectives is to have a healthy and happy team. One way we do this is with a team health survey so now that we've reviewed the results, what are we doing with them?
Say it with…a card
Following on from Dan Cook’s blog post about healthy and happy teams, we’re trialling something new in the digital portfolio team. A new way to say thank you and well done to colleagues who have gone above and beyond.
Showing that we care
We have four cultural values here in PDS: care, community, curiosity, and confidence. We recently held a cultural values day which focused on the care value. Dan Cook and John Box have blogged about why we did it and what it involved.
Flexible working: studying while you work
Helen Thomas and Lorna Kennedy both recently completed their studies and they both worked in PDS while they were studying. In this blog post, they talk about the challenges and how studying while working was more rewarding than they imagined.
Solving problems with Parliament’s Digital Support Desk
Service desk analyst Abigail Prempeh-Brown has worked in various roles. Find out how the service desk fixes problems and how Abigail’s background as a librarian and mental health support worker helps her provide excellent customer service.
Building a healthy and happy team
Team health has become Dan Cook's passion in the past few years. In this post, he talks about how happy and healthy teams deliver at the peak of their capacity and capabilities and how they can be incredible things to be a part of.