Ways of working
GDS is working with organisations across government to pilot a new way of working. We're forming networks of people with different skills and from different departments, who will work together to improve end-to-end services that cross departmental boundaries. We’re calling these networks ‘Service Communities’.
Workshops with our department colleagues give us a joint view of our challenges and a shared sense of ownership – but planning and running them is a real skill. To help with your next workshop, we’ve put together our top 10 tips from 6 months of intensive workshopping.
...This promotes a common culture and way of working when you can see how other teams manage certain issues. Anna Shipman (left) Quite often, teams will make small improvements to...
...orange is information on a physical board in the team area. Why documenting work was useful The PIP team found this way of documenting their work useful for a number...
Just as there are trends in technology, there are fashions in project management and some feel that agile is poorly suited to government and is just a fad. One of the principle objectives for this project was to demonstrate that …
