Craig is at YOW! West in Perth and has a conversation with James Stewart, formerly Deputy CTO for the UK Government and co-founder of the Government Digital Service. In varying locations they talk about:

• YOW! West keynote “Lessons Learned as a Government CTO“
• UK government had some large IT failures  in the last like the NHS National Program for IT (12 billion pound failure), but now lots of successes like Spine 2
• Agile techniques have been successful in the UK government not just because other approaches have failed so badly but the cost of an IT project is only a fraction of the overall cost of a system
• The Government Design Principles – start with user needs – successful projects start with clearly articulated principles, did not realise how much they would resonate
• Worked around a number of government process early on, support from the…