Transforming government together

Every now and then we do well by taking stock of where we are and to map out the future. Sprint 16 was one of those moments.
Every now and then we do well by taking stock of where we are and to map out the future. Sprint 16 was one of those moments.
Look back at #Sprint16 as it happened with the GDS live blog.
...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...
Last week, GDS hosted a hack day for developers from across government.
...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...
...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...
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.
...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...
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,...
Just before Christmas, we held the first meeting of the GDS People Board.