People and skills
...essence, the digital transformation of services relies on making policy an integral part of digital delivery teams and vice versa. This is pretty unique to government. So GDS, along with...
...Doing the hard work to make accessibility simple In May, Alistair Duggin blogged about the work he’d started on making GOV.UK accessible. He explained how he wanted to ensure people...
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.
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.
...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...
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...
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...
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.
...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...
...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...