#Sprint19 live blog: 19 September 2019
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How we support service design across government
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Martin Jordan – former Head of Service Design, GDS, Posted on:
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Service design
Service design is an established role in government. In this post, Martin Jordan, Head of Service Design at GDS, gives an overview of the various formats of support and activities available to people working on improving public services in the UK.
Developing a learning approach for the content design profession
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Laura Billings - former Communities Lead, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, People and skills
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POwwKbjFQRs The content community team is working to build effective, adaptable and scalable learning experiences for content designers across the public sector. We're doing this work so that the content...
A public service odyssey
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Alison Pritchard - former Director General, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Sprint, Transformation
Alison Pritchard was named interim Director General of the Government Digital Service in August 2019. In this post, Alison shares her journey in government so far and talks about what she's looking forward to delivering in the next few months.
Podcast: On writing
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Sarah Stewart - former Senior Writer, Government Digital Service 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.
Emerging techies: Summer Diversity interns at GDS
...is fantastic at what it does – whether it’s modelling agile working, building products or upskilling civil servants through the GDS Academy. I’ve had a number of valuable opportunities while...
How we started the 'Muslims at GDS' community
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Dilwoar Hussain - Senior Frontend Developer, Government Digital Service and Arfah Farooq, Posted on:
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People and skills
...of simple questions which I found difficult asking as a new starter, such as “where is the prayer room?” or “where is the closest mosque?”. I was new to the...
Back to the future: realising the strategy for innovation
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Sue Bateman - Deputy Director for Innovation, Central Digital and Data Office, Posted on:
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Technology, Transformation
...open data, data ethics and data sharing and – while I was there – brought in the Codes of Practice to make the data sharing powers in the Digital Economy...
Why you should set up a service community
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Kuba Bartwicki - Lead Designer, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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People and skills, Ways of working
...up their own community. There is guidance to help you do this in the Service Manual. Here are the benefits that setting up a service community can bring. Connect with...
Engaging UK suppliers in the Global Digital Marketplace Programme alpha phase
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Chantal Donaldson-Foyer and Warren Smith - former Director for the Global Digital Marketplace Programme, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Global Digital Marketplace
...research, service design and agile working skills and experience. We’ll also look to bring a user-centred approach to procurement practice by working with users to design new routes to market...
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