3: Transforming a 300 Year Old Institution in Four Weeks with Matt Stutely OBE, Former Head of Software Engineering at the UK’s Parliamentary Digital Service
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For 300 years, UK politicians voted in person as a matter of tradition. Then covid gave them just 4 weeks to change all that…
Leading a team to create an entirely new remote voting platform for MPs was the challenge bestowed on the Head of Software Development, Matt Stutely.
Matt shares how he took on an impossible task, earned an OBE, and reinvented the voting system on this fascinating episode of the Leaders Unscripted podcast.
This episode covers:
- Creating a system for Parliament to vote remotely for the first time in history
- The huge accessibility and cybersecurity challenges faced
- Pressure and personal struggles as a leader, where nobody is looking out for you
- Advice for leaders with a seemingly impossible deadline
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