FWD50 took place on November 6-8, 2023 in Ottawa's Lansdowne Park. See the Agenda.
There have been 272 posts and 905 favourites with the hashtag #fwd50 on Mastodon.
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They're back! Join hosts-with-the-most Amanda Bernardo & Rob Butler at #FWD50 this year at our in-person Workshop and Industry Innovation stages. https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/1979/amanda-bernardo https://www.fwd50.com/speaker/1987/rob-butler
"So none of you have heard of a TBS strategy that is supposed to support Indigenous data sovereignty?" "…nope." "That says something right there." #fwd50
“Research in the past has always been about negative things, 'deficit-based research'. There's a lot of good things happening: language revitalization, people getting their degrees. Look at the good stuff too, it brings positivity to everybody.” Dr. Morgan Kahentonni Phillips #fwd50
“Indigenous peoples hold a strong understanding of what happened to their lands and their waters, and the living beings calling that land home.” Sean Power kicking off the afternoon session on Open Science & Indigenous Knowledge #fwd50 @fwd50
Loving the complexity theme this morning at #fwd50 trying to solve complex problems with approaches that work with complicated problems does not work with complex issues according to @tomski. Every public servant, especially leaders should know the difference. The key is the feedback loop.
“Answering this question in English would be different than answering this question in Kanien'kéha. In English I'd say, 'everything is connected' but in Kanien'kéha it's built into our language in fundamental ways.” Brad Greyeyes-Grant #fwd50
This afternoon at #fwd50 I am a 'mentor' talking about hiring and retention over in the Workshop space https://www.fwd50.com/session/1229/mentor-meetups-convo-codes
I will have cookies and stickers in an attempt to bribe people to come say hello so I'm not Billy No Mates for an hour
“It’s not an agile software team with some policy people bolted on. It’s radically different.” @tomski #fwd50
@sboots saying Sean Boots things at #fwd50.
As IT modernization/transformation project costs start skyrocketing, the "transformational" pieces - the part that make services better for users - are the first to get cut. So we end up with expensive products that are only slightly less fragile than what we had before (but not necessarily delivering services better)
"There's more of a community now, across digital teams. Where will things be 10 years from now?" Angelica Quirarte #fwd50
@Monxerxz Last year this book made a big splash at #FWD50 https://www.hackyourbureaucracy.com/
En route eastbound #YYJ > #YYZ > #YOZ to attend @fwd50 in-person for the first time since November 2018.
On my mind: How very much I’m looking forward to reconnecting with some of the best people on the planet, who are all working for designed positive change in/for/with publics. ❤️
And also how VERY much has changed for/around/to us in these 5 years since I was last with the #fwd50 community. 🤯
So excited to learn & share about all this starting tomorrow morning. 🔥
“The ‘digital’* skills we most need are people skills.” ~ Ebony Sager** @ #fwd50
*Air quotes mine
**Here, (re)posting very much = endorsement 🙌
"We need to be able to iterate, in production! Instead of getting stuck in planning, in procurement, and in waterfall development. Then we risk running out of budget, running out of time, and getting shut down." Xiaopu Fung #fwd50
“The emphasis on caring about user needs, about understanding the importance of user research, and having empathy for users. That's what we need from leadership.” Ebony Sager #fwd50
Talks at #FWD50 are really making me think we need to move towards a product management model, with empowered, multidisciplinary service teams.
I'm taking the opportunity to reshare a little thing I had wrote that briefly touched on this (and what we can do in the meantime, in the context of the GC web presence):
https://www.davidpepin.ca/billets/maintain-improve-transform/
"Why were we expecting people to stand in line in the first place? Why couldn't they apply online? What was the inertia that was preventing that?" Minister Terry Beech at #fwd50
