People and skills

Learning and doing together

, 18 September 2015 - People and skills, Transformation

I’ve written about the important work we’ve been doing in building a Digital and Technology profession across government. Digital transformation of government is bigger than any one person.

Cambridge coding club for girls

Tatiana Soukiassian, 16 September 2015 - GDS team, People and skills

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

, 10 September 2015 - GDS team, GOV.UK, People and skills, Transformation

A few years ago, I stood up at the first GDS all-staff meeting and told everyone there to “look sideways”, by which I meant: don’t get stuck in silos of your own making.

Hire the head and the body will follow

, 24 July 2015 - People and skills

Part of building government as a platform is people.

Learning by doing: to GDS and back again

Denise Shaw, 7 July 2015 - People and skills

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

Trans-Atlantic mind-melding with USDS and 18F

GDS team, 29 June 2015 - GDS team, People and skills

Last week we welcomed visitors from the US Digital Service and 18F over here for the best part of a week to swap stories, experiences, and mistakes.

Being a GDS technical architect - the first few weeks

John Strudwick, 24 June 2015 - GDS team, People and skills, Service design

Government technology boring? Not from where I’m standing.

Data as a public asset

, 28 March 2015 - People and skills

As some of you might have seen earlier in the week, I've just been appointed as the government's first Chief Data Officer.

That was 400 days of delivery

, 10 February 2015 - Digital strategy, GDS team, People and skills, Sprint, Transformation

Last week, we held an event: Sprint 15. It marked the culmination of the two-year transformation project that began with Sprint 13, when we made our plan clear: there were 400 days to transform government.

Jobs and digital

, 15 January 2015 - People and skills

This is something one of the GOV.UK team printed out, a simple word cloud that shows popular search terms on GOV.UK. What’s the thing people search for most? “Jobs.” Front and centre, far bigger than everything else on that page. …

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