The tricky topic of governance
When we're working with the 25 exemplar services, the transformation team often get asked how to govern service delivery in an agile world.
Transformation
Posts about the digital transformation work GDS and the wider government is undertaking.
I fought the law and the users won: delivering online voter registration
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Pete Herlihy - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Transformation
Last week we launched a new online service allowing people to register to vote. This is a big deal.
Individual Electoral Registration - changing the way we register to vote
...delivered the digital service with a small team against a deadline set in legislation is by being agile. Agile is not a thing you buy, agile is a thing you...
Open Policy Making and Digital - a happy coupling
Find out what happened at our latest Open Policy Making event, co-hosted with the Government Digital Service. You can read more about what Open Policy Making is and what it looks like in practice on our new blog: https://openpolicy.blog.gov.uk/
Getting approval for agile spending
Today, GDS and HM Treasury publish new clarification of business case guidance. We needed to explain how government organisations get permission to spend money on agile work.
Inside a service manager's head
We talk a lot about building "digital services so good, people prefer to use them"; but we don't often talk about the people who are going to run those services.
GDS this week: Innovating with SMEs and fast track apprentices
...here about how the Fast Track Apprenticeship Scheme is helping transform the Civil Service. Follow Dr. Brian Gannon, UK Civil Service and HRH The Duke of York on Twitter: Dr....
200 days of transformation, 200 days to go
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Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
We set an ambitious challenge at Sprint 13; transform government in just 400 working days. Today Sprint 14 marked the halfway point, and the results are terrific; the transformation programme has wrapped up its discovery phase four public betas have …
Sprint 14 - Showcasing digital public services - simpler, clearer, faster
...on - making it easier for people to do things like register to vote, book driving tests, complete tax returns, or apply for a visa to visit the UK. These...
Going ‘live’ with the Service Standard
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Mark McLeod - former Senior Product Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
The Digital by Default Service Standard has been running as a beta for almost a year now, but formally comes into force in April. Now that we’ve run over 40 assessments, we thought it was time to summarise what we’ve …
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