The Exchange Podcast

Dai Vaughan, co-founder of the UK Government Digital to continue the conversation from the #DigitalBC Livestream with Jillian Carruthers on Legacy Modernization Part 1: The Why. Some of the questions we discuss include funding teams rather than projects, overcoming risk aversion, teams that change policy and more.

If you would like to go deeper, check out this series by Dave Rogers on Toxic technology, it's causes and what to do

Nino Samson, Product Owner, Health Gateway, Ministry of Health team to continue the conversation from the #DigitalBC Livestream with Jillian Carruthers on Setting the conditions for digital at scale enhanced the Health Gateway teams velocity.  How we enable the foundations for digital teams, ensuring that digital teams can be successful in the long run is crucial, and in this continuing conversation we are not talking about small tiny pieces. This is the Ministry of Health. This is a very big ministry in our organization, and how we drive agile change. 

In this Exchange podcast, Matthew Hall and Jessica Wade continues the conversation from the #DigitalBC Livestream with Jaimie Boyd from July 6 on Leadership Attributes of a Product Owner.

Some of the questions we discuss include How do you build user centric products if you have that barrier of directly accessing your user group, defining value, what are the most difficult aspects of the job and more

Alex MacLennan, Assistant Deputy Minister, Enterprise Service Division continues the conversation from the #DigitalBC Livestream with CJ Ritchie on Digital Workplace. What does it mean?

Some of the questions we discuss include what do you believe will be different in the workplace of the future, suggestions for how to support those who are struggling to transition to this new world, accountability and trust in the workplace and more. 

CJ Ritchie, Associate Deputy Minister and Government Chief Information Officer shares thoughts on her path to getting into Digital Government, key traits to be an effective leader and more on Women Leaders in tech. 

Join David Hume (Assistant Deputy Minister, Government Digital Experience), Ricardo Wagner (Accessibility Lead, Microsoft) and Ari Hershberg (Community of Practice Lead, Exchange Lab) as they discuss what it means to be accessible. They tackle topics like working with legacy tools and technologies, connectivity and cultural accountability. They also share how to cultivate a more accessible and inclusive approach and the tools you need to get started.

Links:

• • Accessible government
  • Accessibility and Inclusion Toolkit
  • Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) Overview
  • Make content accessible to everyone with the Microsoft Accessibility Checker

This podcast was originally recorded in October 2020. Jillian Carruthers, now an Executive Director, Service Transformation for the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change Strategy, shares her thoughts on How the Experience of getting results will change an organization in this installment of A Learner's Journey. 

This is the second podcast of the two-part series on Face-to-Face with Racism. The first podcast featured Dea and Stephanie. Today I am connecting with Roland Best, Manager, Strategic Human Resources. The focus is on the global conversation about race and racism in the past year and the term white privilege.

This is a 34-minute interview. Music by Roland Best PKA: E-RoL Beats

Zorin Samji, senior portfolio manager for the BC Services Card and Mikaela Bertucci, senior program developer for the Property Information Management System talk about working in a new way, what it was like to work in the lab and what it takes to build a strong team and an excellent product in the fourth segment on the Learners Journey: Diving In

We hope you are enjoying the podcast. Please connect to share what you would like to learn about. Drop me a line at [email protected] with your thoughts. 

Jake Morris, is the Senior Scrum Master for the Wildfire team at the Ministry of Environment shares thoughts on becoming a Scrum Master, and working on different teams in our third episode of a Learners Journey -  Learning about Change.