GDS Academy: Expanding our international reach with the Canadian government
...importance of user-centric design, the core principles of Agile and how we can apply it in Canada. I walked away with several new insights on how to frame the roles...
Ways of working
Why we’re taking a strategic approach to communication
We've just published our first communications strategy to help tell the story of GDS and the transformation across government. Learn more about our plans and the 3 themes we'll be focusing on in the coming year.
Tips on how to set up and maintain your own community
...and create a means for people to reserve a spot so you can plan attendee numbers Manage the waiting list for drop offs – our events sell out within 24...
We’ve updated our Social Media Playbook
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Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital strategy, Ways of working
...which will be blogged about in the coming months. It has a new look and feel, and we are taking a more strategic approach to creating content. In addition to...
How we use Instagram at GDS
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Louise Mullan - former Community Manager, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, Ways of working
...photographs, graphics and video. This means that the types of things we post about tend to be visually led. For example we post a lot of our graphic design work,...
How we write guidance for the Service Manual
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Joe Harrison and Louise Miller - Senior Content Designer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, Ways of working
...a range of different things from our guidance depending on their level of experience. People newer to government services or agile ways of working need: ways to get up to...
What we’re doing to make it easier to blog at GDS
...could say that a blog post is like a piece of code. Code is not written in isolation but created within a context – in response to something that our...
GOV.UK: a journey in scaling agile
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Nick Tait - Head of Advisory, Government Digital Service, Alan Wright - former Lead Delivery Manager for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service and Jen Allum - former Head of GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK, Ways of working
Being agile doesn’t mean simply installing a methodology and then religiously sticking to that methodology. A little while ago we learned that we had a few challenges with GOV.UK delivery. So we had to adapt our approach. Here’s what we did and what we learned.
The GDS Academy foundation course: 1,000 graduates and counting
The GDS Academy has just celebrated the 1,000th graduate on its digital and agile foundation course. In this blog post we speak to 4 graduates about how the course helped them take their digital careers to the next level.
Making sure our blogging meets user needs
...how to code in the open securely, which got 33 times more unique page views than an average post. We archived the ‘GDS Digital engagement’ blog due to a big...
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