It's ok to say what's ok
We're hiring quite a lot of new people at GDS, and that's brilliant because there are so many new brains and new skills and new faces to get to know. It's also difficult. It's difficult for those newcomers to know …
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Guest post: my fortnight in GDS
...early to improve them. Perhaps one day all operations staff will be known as user researchers ... Join the conversation on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email...
What government might look like in 2030
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, Digital strategy, GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills
...we have today that let us collaborate with colleagues or connect with customers in real-time didn’t exist. Back then, you still bought your music on CDs. Even the most visionary...
Thank you, Advisory Board
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...Ltd Saul Klein – CEO and Founder of LoveFilm Baroness Lane-Fox – Co-Founder of lastminute.com Brian McBride – Chairman of ASOS and former UK Managing Director of Amazon.co.uk Herman Narula...
Communities of people inspiring each other
...like this one and the Government Service Design Manual. There is also a whole heap of knowledge still hidden away in the heads of product managers, service managers, and others...
Thank you Liam
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...In his new job, Liam will be in charge of coordinating various strands of technology policy across the Department for Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS) and Cabinet Office. He’ll be...
An open letter to our new Advisory Board
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...help us because you believe in the same things that we believe. We summarise those things in our Design Principles. We are agile. We put users first. Our first few...
Digital principles for a better GDS
We’re aiming to bring together how we apply a digital way of thinking and our own design principles to make GDS a better place to work.
GDS and gender diversity at conferences and events
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
Equality and diversity matters a lot to me, and to everyone here at GDS. I wrote about it a couple of weeks ago in my role as Cabinet Office LGB&TI...
Hosting codebar at GDS
...up to go through tutorials or build projects over two hours in a variety of languages: HTML, CSS, Javascript, Ruby, and more. We received good feedback and we will now...
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