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Conrad Meagher

Conrad Meagher

User Centred Design in Local Authority, previously NHS. Working in the open, building trust with users.

Weeknotes S1 E9

2 min readSep 13, 2023

✨ Good things
Making some headway on journey mapping SEN applications. There is a lot of service demand at the moment, which we are working on fixing, but will mean we can analyse use the user contact to identify user needs.

✏️ What am I working on?
Bit of traditional PM work this week setting out deliverables, KPIs for some upcoming projects.

🤔 Challenges?
Drilling down motivations for change and then getting buy-in for proposed change options. Being able to link this to the benefits of the solutions to of I also feel that we could communicate better how we work with clients and colleagues when we start a project. Might just borrow Martin Jordan’s Top 10 tips for working with Service Designers and pop them in a slide deck.

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💡 What did I learn?
Took part in our team’s Project Mgmt. 1-day training. Lots of content that is familiar but really helpful to see the PM approach that the team uses.

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Project Management process map

✅ What did I achieve/do?
Lots of small bits this week but delivered an insights pack from interviews and live observations highlighting pain points and staff experience.

🔜 Coming up?
Getting together to plan UCD lunch and learn in December.

💭 Anything else
Local Digital Stockport Family Context toolkit Show & Tell. Will be interesting to dip into this to see how they undertook an User focused and Agile delivery approach to this toolkit.

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Conrad Meagher
Conrad Meagher

Written by Conrad Meagher

User Centred Design in Local Authority, previously NHS. Working in the open, building trust with users.