Back in January 2020, not long after we finished our Discovery sprint, we posted about a project called Readiness Reporting and Deployability Discovery, or R2-D2 for short. On May the 4th (obviously), we established a complete multi-disciplinary delivery team and …
Rich Crowther, Head of the Defence Digital Service (DDS), explains why we think that - even in Defence - we can secure our OFFICIAL workloads better in the public cloud than we can on-premises. In Defence we’re starting to make …
Balancing civilian and military life For the last 20 years I’ve had had two careers. Throughout various parts of my life they’ve taken different priorities. And sometimes each has wanted a little more than the other will allow. But for …
Robin Riley recaps what happened at the first in a series of (un)conferences for digital practitioners in the Royal Navy, British Army, Royal Air Force and Ministry of Defence. In common with many digital and technology teams all over the …
The R2-D2 discovery sprint
This discovery sprint looked into how Defence as a whole assesses 'readiness' (supply and demand) of the people and the equipment in our military. Reporting 'readiness' is done both against the Defence Plan (our committed forces) and for all other ad hoc tasks. And because we’re nerds, we have called this the 'Readiness Reporting and Deployability Discovery' – or R2-D2.
The Defence Digital Service (DDS), a new group in the Ministry of Defence (MOD) are here to help pave the way for the rapid delivery of user-centred products and services in Defence. Using modern practices and technologies, they are aiming to bring tactical and strategic advantage by responding rapidly to user needs, both in the office and in the battlespace.