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?
Continuous iteration
A new way of working: single technical direction
To improve PDS focus on delivery and its ability to effectively prioritise work on a new website for Parliament, our development team is moving to a new way of working.
Keeping it simple: content principles for Parliament
Information is the currency of the House of Commons and House of Lords with 37 pieces of new content published on parliament.uk every day, on average. We've created a set of content principles to maintain standards and help our editors.
Changing how we design and deliver services
In the Digital Service, we’ve spent the past four years delivering a lot of change but we also realised that we need to re-think some aspects of how we operate. Rebecca Elton, director of service design, explains what this means for Parliament.
Understanding what our users are searching
Understanding how and what users search on Parliament’s website helps us continually improve the search function. We wanted to understand if there was a difference between parliamentary language and what users are searching. Data analyst, Sara Reis, shares the findings.
Parliamentary facts and figures from the Commons Library: the ultimate pub quiz questions
Online content manager, Rosie Barber, has written about improving a previously overlooked section on parliament.uk.
Westminster – not as unique as we might think
Caroline Auty attended the recent ANZPIT forum in Australia, which is an annual gathering of parliamentary IT people, and she's blogged about the best bits.
Rediscovering research
Marttiina Gilchrist talks about what to do with research when work or projects get paused and how not to lose momentum.
iPhone filming: what not to do
When the content team was created a couple of years ago, we blogged about who we are and what we do. We've since made a video about our work using the minimum viable film studio - a mobile phone. Louise Duffy describes the filming process and the lessons she's learnt.
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.