What do we mean when we talk about services?
To a user, the definition of a service is simple. For those of us who work in government, though, it can be more complex. Before updating the Service Standard, we need to settle on a cross-government definition of an end-to-end service. So we carried out research to do this.
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.
Help the Digital Marketplace go global
...Digital Marketplace is a partnership between GDS and the Foreign and Commonwealth Office. It aims to help international governments make their procurement more transparent, in order to prevent corruption and...
Celebrating International Women’s Day
...prioritisation and the design process. Still, my main responsibility is to write and maintain the code for the service together with my developer colleagues. I massively enjoy working for GDS....
What we need to do to support end-to-end services across government
...well as the digital elements. And it includes the internal processes that government needs to deliver an outcome. But it’s also important that it doesn’t stop services being built quickly...
GDS: proving what’s possible
Earlier this month I visited GDS staff in the White Chapel Building with my senior management team. I was last there in the summer – and it was great to see everyone now fully settled in. The office felt like …
Sprint 18: talking about the future of transformation
On 10 May GDS will be hosting Sprint 18. This will be an event to celebrate all the great work that has been done so far to transform government – and to look at what we’ll be doing next.
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...
Data team wins Future Policy Network award
...recognise outstanding work in these areas, an awards ceremony was held in January. The GDS Better Use Of Data team was delighted to receive an award for the Data Science...
The Government Transformation Strategy - one year on
A year ago we published the Government Transformation Strategy. In this post, GDS Director General Kevin Cunnington talks about how government has been transforming together and what our priorities are now.
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