Writeup from SDinGov, a good couple of days all gathered in a meandering blog post, as per. Enjoy! stamanfar.medium.com/sdingov-2025...
SDinGov 2025
Unstructured thoughts about the workshops and talks I attended. Huge thanks to everyone who spent their time preparing talks and case…
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September 22, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Writeup from SDinGov, a good couple of days all gathered in a meandering blog post, as per. Enjoy! stamanfar.medium.com/sdingov-2025...
Thanks @northernballet.bsky.social for wonderful performance of “Merlin” yesterday evening. Loved the interpretation and energy sustained through final show of the run.
Sorry to miss Leeds friends - chatted out after full-on #SDinGov. Will be back, especially if new-to-me train route works out
Sorry to miss Leeds friends - chatted out after full-on #SDinGov. Will be back, especially if new-to-me train route works out
September 21, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Thanks @northernballet.bsky.social for wonderful performance of “Merlin” yesterday evening. Loved the interpretation and energy sustained through final show of the run.
Sorry to miss Leeds friends - chatted out after full-on #SDinGov. Will be back, especially if new-to-me train route works out
Sorry to miss Leeds friends - chatted out after full-on #SDinGov. Will be back, especially if new-to-me train route works out
Very sad not to be at #PaperCamp4 today, but made the right decision
Just woke up from 2hr nap due to being wiped out by very enjoyable and very intense #SDinGov
Just woke up from 2hr nap due to being wiped out by very enjoyable and very intense #SDinGov
Spending the day at #PaperCamp4 today. Digital folk talking non-digital stuff!
September 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Very sad not to be at #PaperCamp4 today, but made the right decision
Just woke up from 2hr nap due to being wiped out by very enjoyable and very intense #SDinGov
Just woke up from 2hr nap due to being wiped out by very enjoyable and very intense #SDinGov
Weeknotes, not yet including SDinGov as I need to gather my thoughts but including some other stuff. weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
Weeknotes S21 Ep2
I sort of deliberately wrote my last weeknotes on a Tuesday in some kind of attempt to 1. get back into the swing of writing but also to 2…
weeknot.es
September 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
Weeknotes, not yet including SDinGov as I need to gather my thoughts but including some other stuff. weeknot.es/weeknotes-s2... @weeknotes-bot.bsky.social
Thanks everyone for another terrific #SDinGOV
Train journey south is an opportunity to get started on the sticky notes from my workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality. A lot to reflect on
Plus, need to update @pixlz.com as she had to miss out due to family emergency.
Train journey south is an opportunity to get started on the sticky notes from my workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality. A lot to reflect on
Plus, need to update @pixlz.com as she had to miss out due to family emergency.
September 19, 2025 at 5:18 PM
Thanks everyone for another terrific #SDinGOV
Train journey south is an opportunity to get started on the sticky notes from my workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality. A lot to reflect on
Plus, need to update @pixlz.com as she had to miss out due to family emergency.
Train journey south is an opportunity to get started on the sticky notes from my workshop on #ErrorRates and #DataQuality. A lot to reflect on
Plus, need to update @pixlz.com as she had to miss out due to family emergency.
I had a wonderful time delivering a workshop on Ending gracefully at #sdingov with @imhuyorks.bsky.social this morning.
The room was gentle, reflective and intentional. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Imran for showing me a different mode to facilitate in.
The room was gentle, reflective and intentional. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Imran for showing me a different mode to facilitate in.
September 19, 2025 at 1:56 PM
I had a wonderful time delivering a workshop on Ending gracefully at #sdingov with @imhuyorks.bsky.social this morning.
The room was gentle, reflective and intentional. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Imran for showing me a different mode to facilitate in.
The room was gentle, reflective and intentional. Thank you to everyone who joined us and to Imran for showing me a different mode to facilitate in.
Can we all have a round of applause for @karakane-kk.bsky.social and all the amazing work she does 🌟
Kara delivered 3 sessions at #sdingov this year:
Kara delivered 3 sessions at #sdingov this year:
September 19, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Can we all have a round of applause for @karakane-kk.bsky.social and all the amazing work she does 🌟
Kara delivered 3 sessions at #sdingov this year:
Kara delivered 3 sessions at #sdingov this year:
Thanks everyone who came to listen to our talk about "Share & Reuse by Design" at @sdingov.bsky.social ! It's great to start conversations with people from other departments who are as dedicated to normalising and enabling reuse as we are. <3
@robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov
@robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov
September 19, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Thanks everyone who came to listen to our talk about "Share & Reuse by Design" at @sdingov.bsky.social ! It's great to start conversations with people from other departments who are as dedicated to normalising and enabling reuse as we are. <3
@robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov
@robjmccarthy.bsky.social #sdingov
“AI is an aspiration, not a thing”
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social at #SDinGov, inspiring us to think about responsibility and people when considering AI
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social at #SDinGov, inspiring us to think about responsibility and people when considering AI
September 19, 2025 at 10:01 AM
“AI is an aspiration, not a thing”
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social at #SDinGov, inspiring us to think about responsibility and people when considering AI
Steph Wright @elmosmoe.bsky.social at #SDinGov, inspiring us to think about responsibility and people when considering AI
That worked well!
The room was so packed that some people were turned away.
@karakane-kk.bsky.social & I had a productive yet brief #SDinGov workshop with 60+ people on making end-to-end services finally happen. We collected approaches on how to get there.
Slides here: github.com/martin-jorda...
The room was so packed that some people were turned away.
@karakane-kk.bsky.social & I had a productive yet brief #SDinGov workshop with 60+ people on making end-to-end services finally happen. We collected approaches on how to get there.
Slides here: github.com/martin-jorda...
September 19, 2025 at 6:08 PM
That worked well!
The room was so packed that some people were turned away.
@karakane-kk.bsky.social & I had a productive yet brief #SDinGov workshop with 60+ people on making end-to-end services finally happen. We collected approaches on how to get there.
Slides here: github.com/martin-jorda...
The room was so packed that some people were turned away.
@karakane-kk.bsky.social & I had a productive yet brief #SDinGov workshop with 60+ people on making end-to-end services finally happen. We collected approaches on how to get there.
Slides here: github.com/martin-jorda...
“AI isn’t taking your job, the people making the decisions are”
“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”
“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”
“Be hopeful AND cynical”
Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov
“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”
“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”
“Be hopeful AND cynical”
Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov
September 19, 2025 at 9:56 AM
“AI isn’t taking your job, the people making the decisions are”
“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”
“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”
“Be hopeful AND cynical”
Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov
“Responsibility must be shared, not outsourced”
“Being able to ignore the doom and gloom is a privileged position”
“Be hopeful AND cynical”
Necessary truth bombs from @elmosmoe.bsky.social at @sdingov.bsky.social #sdingov
Brilliant keynote from @rdietkus.bsky.social at #sdingov about public services as care.
She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.
“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.
“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
September 19, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Brilliant keynote from @rdietkus.bsky.social at #sdingov about public services as care.
She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.
“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
She also talked about hypernormalisation. This world were living in and what were witnessing is not normal.
“There's wo truths, what we feel in our bodies and what the world insists we perform”
Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.
September 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Mojo thoroughly back via #SDingov. Great couple of days with inspiration from new voices, old lags and colleagues past and present. Oh, and a magician.
Echos of Cassie Robinson’s previous talk in this mornings #SDinGov talk by Rachel Deitkus mentioning Nick Cave and the Red Hand files 😍
September 18, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Echos of Cassie Robinson’s previous talk in this mornings #SDinGov talk by Rachel Deitkus mentioning Nick Cave and the Red Hand files 😍
“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”
@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
September 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
“Everything shareable across government in one place – to support the delivery of digital services”
@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
@nikolagoger.bsky.social sharing their cross-gov Reuse Library work at #SDinGov:
reuselibrary-dev.apps.cloud-platform.service.justice.gov.uk
“Care is not a sentiment; it’s an operating system that belongs at the centre”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
September 18, 2025 at 9:25 AM
“Care is not a sentiment; it’s an operating system that belongs at the centre”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
Great to see this here:
“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
September 18, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Great to see this here:
“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
“‘Move carefully and fix things‘ is a small sticker by Bill Hunt that isn’t just a sticker, but it’s an approach of working with dignity and care”
— @rdietkus.bsky.social at #SDinGov
The 5 top skills and 7 core practices of designers working in government #publicdesign #SDinGov
September 19, 2024 at 10:45 AM
The 5 top skills and 7 core practices of designers working in government #publicdesign #SDinGov
We @hellostu.xyz @mikerose.co.uk @adrianhoward.com @ox1digital.co.uk @pretendcato.bsky.social @jamiearnold.com @himal.bsky.social and Martin (not of this parish) have been meeting about monthly for Geeky Coffee in Dorchester. I'm thinking of Dorset Geeky Coffee does Edinburgh or SDinGov Geeky Coffee
September 1, 2025 at 10:50 PM
We @hellostu.xyz @mikerose.co.uk @adrianhoward.com @ox1digital.co.uk @pretendcato.bsky.social @jamiearnold.com @himal.bsky.social and Martin (not of this parish) have been meeting about monthly for Geeky Coffee in Dorchester. I'm thinking of Dorset Geeky Coffee does Edinburgh or SDinGov Geeky Coffee
So many great points being made by Steph Wright on AI in today’s keynote. #sdingov Copilot Agents are here, slowly creeping into our workflows. Local Gov needs more support in how to:
- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control
- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control
September 19, 2025 at 9:29 AM
So many great points being made by Steph Wright on AI in today’s keynote. #sdingov Copilot Agents are here, slowly creeping into our workflows. Local Gov needs more support in how to:
- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control
- design for fairness
- mitigate bias
- measure accuracy of agents
- design for human in control
Great blog from colleagues at Essex on how they shared what they learned at SDinGov with the rest of us 🤓
Sharing our learning from SDinGov 2023 - Service Transformation
The Service Transformation team brings together business design, continuous improvement, organisation design and service design. We work closely with teams across the council to have a positive impact...
servicetransformation.blog.essex.gov.uk
January 4, 2024 at 9:45 AM
Great blog from colleagues at Essex on how they shared what they learned at SDinGov with the rest of us 🤓
Follow ups
👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk
wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut
✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works
👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff
👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk
wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut
✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works
👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff
Beware of the Team Doughnut
This blog post by Steve Garrett was adapted by Cassie Burgess and Simon Pang for the Service Design in Government, 2024 conference. Thank you to everyone who came to the talk. And sorry to those who w...
wearesportengland.org
September 26, 2024 at 10:53 AM
Follow ups
👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk
wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut
✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works
👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff
👀 Read my blog post = the seed of the #SDinGov talk
wearesportengland.org/2024/04/12/beware-of-the-team-doughnut
✅ Check you can map your individual involvement in a piece of work to @ewebber.bsky.social's Team Onion model. Teamonion.works
👋 Say hi if you're working on similar stuff
“Government is good at managing risk but bad at managing uncertainty” hear hear 👏 via Aline Alonso from @SDNetwork #SDinGov #ServiceDesign
March 9, 2025 at 11:12 AM
“Government is good at managing risk but bad at managing uncertainty” hear hear 👏 via Aline Alonso from @SDNetwork #SDinGov #ServiceDesign