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.
Continuous iteration
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.
Things can only get beta
We recently published a Guide to Procedure for MPs on the beta website. The product owner and the content designer explain how they created the guide and how the team worked together.
Analytics at PDS: alpha ambiguity
Laboni Paul is a performance analyst and has written about what the job involves but also how analysts can be used better in product teams.
Listening to what our users tell us
Since we made beta.parliament.uk publicly available, we’ve been asking users to give us feedback from a banner which is on every page. Gemma Rogers shares some of the feedback we’ve had and what we do with the information.
Changes to search on Parliament's websites
In this update, we'll be talking about the work that we've done to improve the search results on parliament.uk and how we created a unified search.
Going live with the statutory instruments service: the challenges and lessons learned
Sarah Purssell has written about the new statutory instruments service, the challenges of building it, and what the team learned from it.
Who is Parliament's website for?
Steve Bromley has written about who our website is for and why it's important to be realistic about who our audiences are.