For once it was a four day week that didn’t feel like trying to compress six days of work into the time available. So that was good (I suspect the fact it was half term in many parts of the country contributed to the reduction in noise and email traffic). I am on leave next Monday but don’t expect it to be quite so relaxed when I return to work on Tuesday.
What I’ve been up to
- A crammed agenda at the Change Executive meeting on Tuesday meant I didn’t get to set out all the excellent work have done on resource demand and forecasting in the detail I had wished. That means returning next month to update the committee but the detail we now have is helping us to better estimate future demand spikes and how we resource them better.
- Our all staff call rolled well, ably chaired by Sarah our head of delivery. Two excellent lightning talks, one on how and what our integration service team operates on and another our recent successful data centre migration project. I also took part in an unscripted “get to know Jeremy” session which I managed to get through without tripping over.
- On Wednesday evening a few of us got together to say goodbye to Adrian for his work as Executive Director of Digital and wish him luck in the future.
- We’ve continued to support the team working on the agency op model and they presented back their diagnosis to us, which chimed well with what I’ve picked up since I joined just before Christmas.
What I’m planning next
- The big event this week is a leadership workshop for all the senior leaders (digital leadership team members plus heads of practice) in the directorate. We don’t get together in-person enough so time together is precious to build trust and confidence in each other.
- The op model work moves into future state vision and direction thinking.
- We’re reviewing objectives and deliverables for next year across the directorate this year to comply with organisational deadlines to have these in place soonest.
- I’m attending the regular Evolve programme board to review progress over the last month.
- Related – Digital are working closer with the Evolve programme team to support and advise them. We are planning more joint structured touch points and workshops to improve ways of working and a shared understanding of the roadmap.
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