Weekly Reading List

This page contains a list of articles I've read and found interesting over the past week.

Over the past week, I have been reading about... the future of public-sector product management, agile literacy in the Civil Service, data asset management in government, the fate of open-source projects, digital sovereignty, public digital, and learning outsourcing.

Wednesday - 20 May 2026

• What changes for product management - The Future of (Public Sector) Product Management in a Vibe Coded World

  Estimated read time: 6 minutesThe section above widens what we mean by “the service”. This section brings it back down to the practical question: what changes in the day job when building stops being the main constraint? Pace changes the rhythm As AI-assisted delivery becomes normal, the most obvious change is pace. The tempo of […]

  Tags: software development, product strategy, product management, agile development, AI-assisted delivery

  Author: Benjamin Welby

• Why agile literacy matters across the Civil Service​

  Agile literacy is about enabling better conversations, not turning everyone into delivery experts. Using the DBT as a case study, this post shows how shared understanding of agile ways of working improves collaboration across roles.​

  Tags: civil service, Collaboration, Agile Methodology, digital transformation, Training and Development

  Author: Rainbow Harrison, Senior Delivery Manager

• Data asset management in government

  Guidance and policy for government departments on how to identify, own and maintain the quality of critical data assets.

  Tags: data quality, data management, Public Sector, government policy, data ownership

  Author: Government Digital Service

• Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die

  How your dependencies became Bernies

  Tags: software development, software sustainability, software maintenance, project management, Open Source

  Author: Andrew Nesbitt

Tuesday - 19 May 2026

• A sample from Digital Sovereignty: The Power to Decide — Public Digital

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  Tags: Technology Adoption, Digital Sovereignty, Organizational Change, institutional inertia, strategic decision-making

  Author: nan

Monday - 18 May 2026

• Don’t Outsource the Learning

  Right now, it’s too easy to let AI write the code while you skip the learning. The bug gets fixed. Your mental model doesn’t move. We are silently trading fu…

  Tags: software development, learning, technology, coding, Artificial Intelligence

  Author: Addy Osmani