What is it good for?
- Getting buy-in from stakeholders internally
- Putting together stronger funding bids
- Getting input from your peers in the sector
- Helping you reflect on your work
When to use it
At every stage of your project - it's never too early or too late to start working in the open!
Get the tool
Check out the Open Working Toolkit:
How to use it
Working in the open simply means sharing your work with others—both inside and outside your organsation.
"Work" can be tangible assets like user research insights or prototypes, or it can be your learnings and reflections about the working process itself.
Share through tweets, weeknotes, blogs, or by contributing to a Shared Digital Guide—a detailed step-by-step guide showing how something was accomplished.
Working in the open is reciprocal: you benefit from others' work while they benefit from your shared stories and assets.
You're ready to share as soon as you've learned something you can explain to others. Remember: it doesn't need to be perfect to be valuable.
Further reading
- Watch DigiShift's 'Agile Communication with Giles Turnbull' presentation
- Check out resources and other examples of open working
- Read other people's blogs on Medium
- An example of weeknotes
- Share by contributing to Shared Digital Guide & browse existing Guides