Podcast: Role of product teams in greening delivery
To celebrate Earth Day 2021, we spoke to people working in different digital roles in government about how product teams can contribute to greening delivery.
Ways of working
What’s next for GOV.UK in 2021 to 2022
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Jen Allum - Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, GOV.UK, Ways of working
At the start of the financial year we’re sharing an update on GOV.UK’s strategy.
Lessons on maintaining staff engagement
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Charli Bevan - Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Manager, GDS and Adam Aspinall - former Internal Communications and Employee Engagement Assistant, GDS, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills, Ways of working
A year on from moving to remote working, GDS’s Internal Communications team reflects on employee engagement challenges and successes.
What happened when we stopped having meetings and sending emails
We took advantage of the switch to remote working and tried new working practices in GOV.UK Pay. Our aim was to help people find a balance between work and life that works for them. Here’s what happened.
Developers lead cross-government collaboration on GOV.UK Notify
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Liz Catherall - Delivery Manager, Department for International Trade, Posted on:
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GOV.UK Notify, Ways of working
DIT’s data team explain how working in the open resulted in improvements to the GOV.UK Notify service.
Doing community management for @GOVUK Twitter during COVID-19
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Vanessa Schneider - Senior Channels and Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Ways of working
Recently we've been blogging a lot about how coronavirus has changed operations within government. Here we share how we changed our community management techniques to cope with the huge increase of user queries and what our top tips to other organisations are.
Podcast: On writing
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Sarah Stewart and Angus Montgomery - Strategy Advisor, Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Podcast, Ways of working
GDS senior creative writers Angus Montgomery and Sarah Stewart discuss the role of writers in government and how clear writing can help people to do their jobs better. If you’re asked to write a blog post, opinion piece or presentation, here are Angus and Sarah’s 10 tips for clear writing.
Why you should set up a service community
Service communities are networks of people from across the public sector who work together to design and deliver an end-to-end service. Here are the benefits that setting up a service community can bring, and how to get started.
How we organise monthly mental wellbeing Q&As for GDS staff
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Ben Carpenter - Inclusive services lead, Posted on:
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People and skills, Ways of working
The GDS mental health network exists to provide our colleagues with the mental health support and information they need. We do this in a variety of ways. One of them are regular, anonymous, peer-led mental wellbeing Q&As. In this post, you will read about how we organise them and how to ensure they’re a success.
Guest post: Adapting the GOV.UK Design System for the NHS
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Tim Paul - Head of Interaction Design, GDS and Dean Vipond - Lead designer, NHS Digital, Posted on:
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Transformation, Ways of working
In this guest post, Dean Vipond, lead designer at NHS Digital, describes how they adapted the GOV.UK Design System for use in their health and care services.
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Be part of the transformation
If you’re interested in joining us, check out all open opportunities on the GDS careers site.
What’s next for digital identity in government?
Find out how we’re working with government teams to co-design a single sign-in and digital identity solution that works for all services and their users.