Same name, new ambitions
Same name, new ambitions
A new chapter begins. We unveil the name and vision for the new digital centre for government.
I became a civil servant by accident
Mark Branigan, a User Researcher for the Digital Marketplace, shares his experience of the Digital and Technology Fast Stream in the Civil Service.
Introducing GOV.UK Pay
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Till Wirth - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Pay, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms
Till Wirth talks about moving from alpha to beta of GOV.UK Pay.
The characteristics of a register
We’ve talked about registers as authoritative lists you can trust, but what do we mean when we say “register”?
How to be agile in a non-agile environment
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Adam Maddison - former Head of Agile Delivery, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team
...your efforts to be agile, and get them to publicly declare their support. Remember that agile is a thing you are, not a thing you do. Revolution is disruptive, which...
Government as a platform for the rest of us
...stimulate markets, and markets drive innovation Government’s current siloed approach stifles innovation, and leads to various problems such as: rent-seeking behaviour from incumbent suppliers new suppliers being excluded, even if...
Status tracking - making it easy to keep users informed
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Pete Herlihy - former Lead Product Manager for GOV.UK Notify, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms
Pete Herlihy talks about the next stage of the digital notifications platform for government.
It’s all about people: DVLA delivers real transformation
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
...in-house the technology team that keep DVLA’s services running. The fact that no-one outside DVLA noticed it happening, and that their services continued to work without a hitch is a...
Your friendly neighbourhood GOV.UK
Evans Bissessar talks about the work he's been doing auditing all the gov.uk domains belonging to local authorities.
Civil servants are users too
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service and Mayank Prakash, Posted on:
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Digital Service Platforms, People and skills
...meeting the needs of their users, while being confident their services will talk to other services in different departments. It’s not designed to replace any of the large systems many...
Thanks Mike
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GDS team, People and skills
...all over government to design and develop great new tools and services. Starting small, and iterating towards better. Starting with user needs, not government needs. I always liked your catchphrase....
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