Hello, I’m Colin

I’m a Product Manager working at the Department of Health and Social Care. I have worked at the Ministry of Defence, Department of Health (before it became DHSC), Department for Work and Pensions and for UK Parliament.

This is a collection of updates and posts from the past few years. You can also find me on Twitter.

Department of Health and Social Care Weeknotes

• Weeknotes E16: Healthy Start team away day
• Weeknotes E15: Scoring suppliers and visiting City Hall
• Weeknotes E14: Job panel experience
• Weeknotes E13: Healthy Start potential name change
• Weeknotes E12: Healthy Start applications get sifted
• Weeknotes E11: Healthy Start advert closes
• Weeknotes E10: Healthy Start prep and supplier questions
• Weeknotes E09: Healthy Start advert goes live
• Weeknotes E08: NHS app reviews and a new minister arrives
• Weeknotes E07: Healthy start beginnings
• Weeknotes E06: Keyholder reviewing
• Weeknotes E05: Trip to Leeds, writing blog posts and attending events
• Weeknotes E04: Assessments, workshops and Digital Week
• Weeknotes E03: Reverse mentoring and first Health Product People
• Weeknotes E02: Short working week and a bank holiday
• Weeknotes E01: My first week on the new job

UK Parliament Fortnightly Updates

I worked on building the new website for Parliament. These updates share what the team got up to and things we found interesting at the time.

• Sprint 51: My final sprint in Parliament
• Sprint 50: Written Q’s and A’s beta
• Sprint 49: Written Q’s & A’s beta kick-off
• Sprint 48: Peer portraits delivered
• Sprint 47: End of Members’ activity alpha
• Sprint 46: Prep for the Peer portraits
• Sprint 45: Members’ activity alpha more testing
• Sprint 44: Members’ activity alpha first rounds of testing
• Sprint 43: Members’ activity alpha kick-off
• Sprint 42: Wrapping up Members’ activity discovery
• Sprint 41: Interviewing and research during discovery
• Sprint 40: Members’ activity discovery kick-off
• Sprint 39: Accessibility reports, contact journey work, fixing bugs
• Sprint 38: End of annual leave allowance ghost sprint
• Sprint 37: Roles and contact journey work

Blog Posts

• Fleming Fund beta assessment
• How to co-create a vision statement
• Health product people community: How to run a successful alpha phase
• Service assessments in DHSC
• Sharing what we do - how our team communicates its updates
• Links on our beta website
• Starting work on a procedure guide for MPs
• Parliamentary Product People
• Winning the IBM challenge with a Hoot
• Six months as a business analyst in DH Digital
• My life as a first year DaT fast streamer