...requirements quickly and effectively. It has been built the way Amazon built Amazon, and in the way that BA transformed their online business, by being agile, iterative and focused on...
If you search for Directgov on Wikipedia, or ever happen to browse through our press releases, you’ll see a version of our history that’s based pretty much around landmark achievements and major events. And that’s fine. We are one of …
Update: we've blogged more recently about the current state of APIs on GOV.UK. Last week I talked about GOV.UK's APIs and how we use them to build and monitor the site. Now it's time to say a little more about …
...the Development team switched to 'skirmish' mode this week. This means that the team is available to work on bugs and tweaks as they come up, and in the last...
We talk a lot about Open Source at GDS. GOV.UK is built on open source software and, to a degree, built as open source software. It's a topic we care passionately about because it helps us maintain our focus on …
A couple of weeks ago we introduced you to the Hosting and Infrastructure team. Now it's time to meet the Finance team. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuEU-d4A5Tk A big thanks to Andy, Ezinne and...
From October the 17th GOV.UK will replace Directgov and Business Link as the best place to find government services and information, but what will that actually mean for people following links for these sites, or visiting bookmarked pages?
It's taken a very different kind of team to build GOV.UK than the one most people picture when they think of web developers. Even within the tech industry, some stereotypes don't fit with the kind of people we've needed.
In January James Weiner wrote a little about the browsers we support and during the summer we revisited that question to decide which operating systems, screen sizes and devices we would support at launch. As with all things on GOV.UK we’ll …
We talk a lot about agile here at GDS. We use agile methodologies to focus on our users. The faster we can build a functioning product, the sooner we can get it in front of real users and start iterating …
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