Being transgender at GDS
...that I wanted to transition full time to live my life as a woman rather than as a man. During 2015 I had come out as transgender to everyone outside...
Introduction to the new induction
A good induction should feel like checking into a beautifully designed 5-star hotel. You should be greeted on arrival and someone should be there to pre-empt any questions. They should...
It takes 2: how we use pair writing
I’m Sue. As a content designer at GDS, it’s my job to write content for everyone. This means I write in the simplest way to help our users do things...
Welcoming our new minister
...introductory discussions about the Digital Marketplace, Common Technology Services, and Data Registers In a quick Q&A with GDS staff, the minister reiterated the importance of rebuilding the relationship between citizen...
What’s new with the Service Manual?
It’s been a few months since we last posted here about the Service Manual, the best place to find guidance and tools for government service teams. Here's an update.
Unconference: setting our own agenda for the latest all-staff meeting
We hold all-staff meetings to share what we’ve achieved and talk about what we’ll be doing next. People wanted to try an ‘unconference’ so everyone could get more involved.
Using mob programming to solve a problem
...code super quickly, and I think that’s what we’d been doing here. One of us would write some code to test a part of the user journey, and then when...
Introducing the GDS International team
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The GDS International Team is now 4 months old and we thought it was about time to introduce ourselves. International collaboration plays a large part in what GDS does, from...
Making digital services better by engaging a diverse range of suppliers
...choose from. Most of the suppliers were based in London, too. To make things better we made lots of changes. In fact, we designed an entirely new framework. When the...
What service managers are thinking about
...definition of what 'service' means varies too. Does it mean something that's only public-facing? What about tools, platforms and software that we all share? Is a digital service different from...
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