Week Notes Origins

Having seen discourse on bubbles.town about bloggers using week notes and it being seen as positive and negative (can we have better titles) so thought I would document the origins of the week notes term and my WeakNotes alternative. During the 2010s the Government Digital Service era Digital Service became an evolution, or revolution perhaps, of making services digital first and by working in the open by default. Services at the time were not accessible and the original staff set about making and showing the thing. The great work over the years were based on a set of principles. Fundamentally this was about working in the open, to show mistakes, learnings and change as it happened and documenting the progress. Effectively weak notes are like individual sprint reviews, the 2010s were for me when the agile software development methodology and mentality really flourished in the UK, and latterly faded during the pandemic and the advent of more remote working environments and the nascent…