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Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 15th May 2017
May 19, 2017
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 8th May 2017
May 12, 2017
Local Government Digital Service Standard - TeaCamp #2
May 9, 2017
As a network for digital practitioners in local government, LocalGov Digital is on a mission to raise standards in web provision and the use of digital by councils across the country.
The London Peer Group is aiming to focus on raising awareness ...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 1st May 2017
May 5, 2017
More on perspectives
May 3, 2017
In my last post, I talked about the value of getting everyone’s perspectives during planning sessions (actually, I’d advocate doing so in all conversations). It just so happens that last weekend I played a great collaborative game with my sister,...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 24th April 2017
April 28, 2017
What’s in a story point? Achieving consensus over compromise
April 28, 2017
There’s no doubt about it, sprint planning sessions can sometimes get a bit… tedious.
Lots of talk and not much coding doesn’t always make for a chirpy team by lunchtime.
Depending on the team size and personalities, some things which I’d assume...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 17th April 2017
April 21, 2017
Welcome to the team: Abraao Mota
April 20, 2017
As a new addition to the Unboxed team in London, I’m Abraao…
I’m currently pursuing my Computing Masters at Imperial College London and I’m interested in everything computing, especially if it’s related to the web. I’ll b...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 10th April 2017
April 13, 2017
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 3rd April 2017
April 7, 2017
Testing in the sprint following development, should you do it?
April 6, 2017
I was with a developer friend recently who asked to pick my mind on an agile challenge he’s been experiencing at work.
The problem: how do you deal with the time lag between Dev and QA, leading to devs twiddling their thumbs at the end of the spr...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 27th March 2017
March 31, 2017
Running ActionCable behind Elastic Load Balancers on AWS
March 31, 2017
We were recently tasked with adding a feature that showed the status of a IoT
device as it changed. It was important that the status page updated quickly;
and given we’d recently upgraded to Rails 5, this was a prime opportunity to
learn Act...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 20th March 2017
March 24, 2017
Local Government Digital Service Standard - TeaCamp #1
March 23, 2017
As a network for digital practitioners in local government, LocalGov Digital is on a mission to raise standards in web provision and the use of digital by councils across the country.
Through releasing the Local Government Digital Service Sta...
Deploying indigo-falcon to production!
March 20, 2017
This isn’t my idea (it’s Ben’s) but I wanted to write it up because I think it’s interesting. I originally started this post in December as a fantasy story about train stations and animals of the Ark but couldn’t get...
Digital Customer Programme: Show & Tell #14 with Newham Council
March 20, 2017
With increasing project momentum comes a much bigger Show & Tell space. Moving from the buzz of the Hive working space, where Show & Tells were previously held, the Digital Team have now invited colleagues to join them in their bigger work...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 13th March 2017
March 17, 2017
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 6th March 2017
March 10, 2017
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 27th February 2017
March 3, 2017
Structuring and managing CSS
March 1, 2017
Managing CSS has always been a bit of a free-for-all. We have complete freedom as to how we structure and organise our project’s stylesheets. This is both good and bad. For quick and disposable projects, you just need something to work and you hav...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 20th February 2017
February 24, 2017
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 13th February 2017
February 17, 2017
Welcome to the team: Lawrence Richards
February 17, 2017
Hi, I’m Lawrence. I’ve recently joined the Unboxed team in London as a service designer.
Originally from Portsmouth, I’ve lived in London for seven years, studying Design at Goldsmiths and Service Design Innovation at LCC.
I love exploring ne...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 6th February 2017
February 10, 2017
Scaling Rails through 650 million requests in 5 days: The Donald Tr...
February 7, 2017
Parliament Petitions is a Rails app which we built in collaboration with GDS during the summer of 2015. Andrew is the lead developer and lead support of the platform, working alongside Pete Herlihy - the Product Owner.
Since last Sunday, our team...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 30th January 2017
February 3, 2017
Taking action to combat health inequalities in Lambeth’s Portuguese...
January 31, 2017
The London Borough of Lambeth is a very diverse community, with an estimated 1 in 6 residents across this Borough speaking Portuguese as their native tongue. Following an annual report compiled by healthcare leaders in Lambeth and the completion o...
Unboxed Roundup: Our links for w/c 23rd January 2017
January 27, 2017