10 May 2018: Sprint 18 live blog
If you didn’t get a chance to attend Sprint 18, make sure you read our live blog from the day. It includes a summary of what happened, photos, videos and tweets.
What’s coming up at Sprint 18
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Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
Sprint 18 is coming up in 1 week – on 10 May. Kevin Cunnington talks about the themes Sprint will focus on, and how they drive our work and our purpose – to help government work better for everyone.
We’re improving the digital and IT spend controls process
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Nic Harrison and Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
We are introducing a new approach to the spend assurance process for technology and digital services across government. Find out how and why we’re doing this.
Consultation launch: accessibility of public sector websites and apps
...it to: consultation-responses@digital.cabinet-office.gov.uk Alternatively, you can send your response by post to: Accessibility team 7th Floor, The White Chapel Building 10 Whitechapel High Street London E1 8QS Please indicate in...
How we’ve made things simpler for suppliers on G-Cloud 10
...these National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) schemes: Cyber Security Consultancy Penetration Testing (CHECK) Cyber Incident Response (CIR) Suppliers can store info centrally To make things easier for suppliers, we’ve created...
GOV.UK: a journey in scaling agile
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Nick Tait - Head of Advisory, Government Digital Service, Alan Wright - former Lead Delivery Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Jen Allum - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Ways of working
Being agile doesn’t mean simply installing a methodology and then religiously sticking to that methodology. A little while ago we learned that we had a few challenges with GOV.UK delivery. So we had to adapt our approach. Here’s what we did and what we learned.
How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding
...colleagues who were interested in learning to code. As you would expect from the lead government department for digital policy, there was strong interest in learning to code at DCMS,...
Refreshing the Open Standards Principles
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Terence Eden - former Open Standards Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Transformation
...Strategy and the UK Digital Strategy. The updated version of the principles uses clearer language and clarifies several important points. The Cabinet Office mandates the use of the Open Standards...
What do we mean when we talk about services?
To a user, the definition of a service is simple. For those of us who work in government, though, it can be more complex. Before updating the Service Standard, we need to settle on a cross-government definition of an end-to-end service. So we carried out research to do this.
The GDS Academy foundation course: 1,000 graduates and counting
The GDS Academy has just celebrated the 1,000th graduate on its digital and agile foundation course. In this blog post we speak to 4 graduates about how the course helped them take their digital careers to the next level.
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