The Beetroots

Haven’t written a weeknote in almost a month, but a lot has been going on. A quick summary on what we’ve been up to follows. Restructured and finished the discovery deck, broadening the data fragmentation finding and surfacing teams’ struggles with the NHS App (and other technologies) as a finding in its own right. Completed further rounds of improvements to the discovery report and supporting deck. Published the discovery outputs – long-form report, design history, and show-and-tell deck – with the playback reinforcing that prevention results are fragmented, duplicated, and often lack the context people need. Ran two in-person alpha kick-off days in London, fleshing out DPSP team map and user problems, sketching solutions, and working through lab-to-GPIT-to-NHS App data flows. Refined the alpha assumptions into a clearer cycle of hypotheses, assumptions and experiments so the highest risks come first. Held the first team retrospective to reflect on the first two weeks of alpha…