Government Digital Service

Notes from a Swedish explorer

Lars Boström, 9 February 2016 - GDS team, People and skills, User research

...of doing things. When building the web development part of the new service we tried out agile methodologies and started to follow the GDS blog, - learning from GDS’s work...

A hack day to test Government as a Platform

Rory Smith, 5 February 2016 - Digital Service Platforms, Events

Last week, GDS hosted a hack day for developers from across government.

Professions and boldness

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 1 February 2016 - GDS team, People and skills

...people can work like that, in line with the Civil Service Code. People need to work in an environment where that sort of thinking and behaviour is supported. I usually...

Sprint 16: transforming government

Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, 28 January 2016 - Sprint, Transformation

...to do in the future. It’s about sharing our plans on how we move beyond focussing on transactions, to whole service transformation. It’s also an opportunity for colleagues from across...

GOV.UK Verify: understanding who can be verified

Michael Clark and Kyran Dale, 25 January 2016 - GOV.UK One Login

We’ve made a tool that shows what proportion of the public will be able to use GOV.UK Verify over the coming months as one of the targets for GOV.UK Verify is to hit 90% demographic coverage by April.

Discovering user profiles

Anna Wojnarowska, 11 January 2016 - GOV.UK

...work outside of office hours. Office everywhere: These staff are office-based but often move around, predominantly for meetings with colleagues or external stakeholders. They regularly work from home and other...

Guest post: joining a GDS service standard assessment panel

Katy Arnold, 7 January 2016 - Service design, User research

GDS conducts Service Standard Assessments for public-facing services with more than 100,000 transactions per year. All smaller services are assessed internally by departments. As the expertise within departments has grown,...