Notes from a Swedish explorer
...of doing things. When building the web development part of the new service we tried out agile methodologies and started to follow the GDS blog, - learning from GDS’s work...
People and skills
Professions and boldness
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
...people can work like that, in line with the Civil Service Code. People need to work in an environment where that sort of thinking and behaviour is supported. I usually...
I became a civil servant by accident
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
Civil servants are users too
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service and Mayank Prakash, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, People and skills
...civil servants use to get all these tasks done. They started with user needs, because civil servants are users too. They talked to, listened to, and observed some civil servants...
Thanks Mike
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
...work done to date and our ambitions for what’s yet to come: “onwards”. That’s the direction we’re all heading; not so much parting ways, more like just forking the repository....
Learning and doing together
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Transformation
...is a 12-day introduction to digital delivery. It will prepare anyone who’ll be working on a digital project at DWP in the future for working in an agile, user-focused multidisciplinary...
Cambridge coding club for girls
Last month I was invited to give a talk as at the Cambridge University Computer Science lab.
It’s not about us, it’s about collaboration
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation
...their vital role in the future of government as a platform as Pete Herlihy wrote just the other day, the status tracking and notifications platform team is working together with...
Hire the head and the body will follow
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills
Part of building government as a platform is people.
Learning by doing: to GDS and back again
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution max_d80 A few months ago I decided to take my experience as a communications manager in the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) and go on secondment to GOV.UK
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