Posts about the digital transformation work GDS and the wider government is undertaking.
Last week we paid a visit to the Ministry of Justice to find out more about the innovative work going on there to bring legal services online. Kit Collingwood tells us about how great it feels for the Lasting Power …
More and more teams across government are getting involved in the transformation programme. We asked Mat Costick to write about his experiences working on an Agile project. I'm the portfolio test manager for several projects at the Home Office. We’ve …
For almost a year I’ve been part of a small team helping to create a new way for government to work with companies that design and build digital services. The result is the first iteration of the Digital Services framework, …
An important part of the work we are doing on capability building is making sure that people who will be leading public services in the future really understand what digital by default means; for policy-making and service delivery. Civil Service …
EDIT: In response to the comments we have received we thought it would be helpful to explain up-front that we will be extending our testing so people will be able to take part wherever they live around the world when …
This week, Kathy Settle, Director of Digital Policy and Departmental Engagement, looks back on GOV.UK's one year birthday and talks about the public beta release of the Carers Allowance service. Follow Kathy on twitter: @Kathy_Settle
A few weeks back, we were chatting about the architecture of the Individual Electoral Registration web service. We started discussing the pros and cons of an approach that would provide a significantly different interaction for any people not running JavaScript. "What …
This week, Mike Beaven, Director of Transformation at GDS, reflects on the first year anniversary of GOV.UK and the progress made on the exemplar transformation programme. Follow Mike on twitter: @MichaelCBeaven
A couple of weeks ago, the team who worked on the visit visa alpha for the Home Office came in to GDS to talk about how it went. We asked Katy Arnold and Chris Atherton to explain a bit more …
The Government Digital Strategy described a new role crucial for helping create digital services so good that people choose to use them - the service manager. We’ve started an induction and development programme for those people, prototyping and learning as …
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