Why I still love working in Parliament 8 years on
Dan Cook has recently started a new role and has been working in Parliament for eight years. He's written about why he still enjoys working here.
Focus on core work
Learning new things on home turf
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Helen Harrison, Posted on:
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Be where people are, Collaboration culture, Curiosity, Focus on core work
Helen Harrison manages an MP's constituency office. Working for a new MP meant that her team were new too and she wanted to find out how they could use technology more efficiently. So she asked our user engagement team for help.
Welcome to the Clerk side
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John Newton, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Content design, Focus on core work, parliament.uk, Start with user needs
We recently blogged about creating a new guide to procedure for MPs. John Newton has written about what it was like being part of the product team from a content perspective.
Behind the scenes of the hybrid bills online service
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Matt Stutely, Ashley Eglin and Chris Stevens, Posted on:
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Experts in what we do, Focus on core work, Open, parliament.uk
We recently blogged about a new online service to petition against a hybrid bill. In this post, we’re talking about the behind the scenes systems that allows the petitions to be processed and sent to government departments.
Creating accessible and responsive search
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Usman Afzal, Posted on:
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Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, parliament.uk
We recently blogged about turning off the old search. We then worked on creating the global search component and this blog post is about what we did from a technical perspective and why.
What business partners in Parliament do
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Gavin Berman, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, Unity without uniformity
Gavin Berman, one of our business partners, explains what business partners do and how it works in Parliament.
Looking back (and forward) at the technology team away day
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Ray Cross, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Focus on core work, Open, Technology
Ray Cross started as Chief Technology Officer three months ago and he took the technology team away for a day in mid-December. He's written about how it went and what the team want to achieve in 2018.
Starting work on a procedure guide for MPs
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Colin Pattinson, Posted on:
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Continuous iteration, Focus on core work, Product Management, Start with user needs
Colin Pattinson recently worked on the discovery for a guide on Parliamentary procedure and he's blogged about the findings.
Launching the new search service on parliament.uk
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Dia Nag, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Continuous iteration, Data and search, Focus on core work, parliament.uk
Parliament currently offers various search functions and our vision is to offer a unified search experience. Replacing the current search on the website with the new search service is the first big step towards that goal.
A new data service for Parliament
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Dan Barrett, Posted on:
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Collaboration culture, Data and search, Experts in what we do, Focus on core work, parliament.uk
Dan Barrett talks about building a new data service for Parliament. One of the things he's learned over the past year is that it’s really hard to talk about Parliamentary data in a way that’s accessible to all. That’s what this blog post is trying to do.