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Delivery management community

What this community's for

We exist to:

• share information about how to deliver digital projects in the public sector,
• create the opportunity to share experiences, observed behaviours and best practice,
• give us space to discuss and challenge how we deliver government projects and products.

Read more in the GOV.UK Service Manual.

Who this community's for

If you're a public sector delivery manager then you've come to the right place :-)

You might be interested in the community if you use (or want to use) agile or waterfall methods to deliver government projects or products.

You don’t have to be in a software development team to join. We have community members from policy, capability and operations.

Get involved

Join the cross-government #deliverymgmt Slack channel

Add your thoughts to our Jam Board.

Join our meet-ups

Below are all the different Agile delivery community meet-ups you can join. Each is run by volunteers from across government.

Please add your meet-up by editing this page.

Delivery Conference (DeliverCon):

• We (normally) do an annual conference,
• It's varied between in-person, hybrid and virtual only,
• #DeliverCon2023 is in-person only in Birmingham,
• View the DeliverCon2023 page for what to expect

Delivery community meet-up:

• Talks from members of the community,
• Held online at 1pm every 4th Friday,
• View details of previous meet-ups, including video recordings and slides,
• Email Barry Traish for an invite.

Gov DMs in the Ether:.

• Lean coffee facilitated discussion,
• Held online monthly, but day and time varies,
• Email info@deliverycon.uk for an invite.

Sheffield cross-gov community:

• Email both Christopher Richardson and Lisa Chambers for an invite,

Newcastle cross-dept community:

• Email Mike Deeble for an ivite.

Members are often also active in other communities, like Agile NE, Agile in the Ether, Development That Pays, Mike Cohn's Mountain Goat Software, Agile Yorkshire, LeanAgile Manchester, Agile in Leeds and Scotviz.

Resources

Members are encouraged to share resources, and this wiki is designed for that. One example resource is DWP's megalist of L&D resources (google docs) for delivery managers.

Podcast

Emma, Senior Delivery Manager at The Royal Borough of Greenwich, asked on Twitter about Delivery Management podcasts.

In the replies, James suggested we start one. He previously recorded audio interviews at Deliver Con Newcastle, so we could use some of that to do an alpha version.

James has created the Podcast discovery page for anyone who'd like to collaborate.