Looking sideways in the product and service manager community
...associate product manager. I’m now the full-time Head of the Product and Service Manager Community. I’m excited to be back at GDS to serve a community of product and service...
GDS team
Posts about who we are and how we work.
Now we are 5
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Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Events, GDS team, Transformation
...the citizen. All of us here owe a great debt to the people who laid the foundations for the organisation we are today. One that is agile and iterative, in...
Celebrating our 5th birthday
...posts since the beginning will have heard it all before. But this is the first time it's been summarised and pulled together in one place, with plenty of pictures, videos...
7 things we learnt on our US visit
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Olivia Neal and Rory Smith, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, GDS team, People and skills
The US government runs an International Visitors Leadership Program, which brings together future leaders from around the world. The most recent visit was for future digital and technology leaders and GDS was invited to take part. We wanted to share what we learnt.
GDS welcomes 2 new senior hires
Posted by:
Kevin Cunnington - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, Transformation
...expansion: to train 3,000 people every year on more than 300 courses, giving government the capability to push ahead with citizen-facing services. I’m also delighted to welcome Emily Ackroyd to...
National Get Online Week: what we’ve been doing
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Chad Bond - former Deputy Director for Standards Assurance, Government Digital Service and Jacob Bonwitt, Posted on:
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Events, GDS team
...some great resources and activities from 3D printers, virtual reality headsets, coding, augmented reality programming and app design. We’ve started fundraising already and are looking for ways to get our...
Platform as a Service team takes even-handed approach to meetings
...of quiet people just as much as the louder ones; we are a poorer team if they don't feel able to participate. Ushering in a new way of communicating The...
Management by the team, not the managers
The People Board is elected by everyone in GDS, and is empowered to decide things and delegate tasks to other people and teams in GDS. This is how it works.
Being transgender at GDS
...further information on the Civil Service Transgender Network, Agender. Laura is a Web Operations Engineer at GDS. Follow GDS on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....
Introduction to the new induction
...their own copy. Then they work through the cards on that board during their first week or so, learning as they go. Trello is a digital to-do list, with each...
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