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Professions and boldness

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 1 February 2016 - Categories: GDS team, People and skills
Janet Hughes

...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...

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Sprint 16: transforming government

Posted by: Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 28 January 2016 - Categories: Sprint, Transformation
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...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...

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GOV.UK Verify: understanding who can be verified

Posted by: Michael Clark and Kyran Dale, Posted on: 25 January 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK One Login
A graph of GOV.UK Verify - estimating demographic coverage v1.1

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.

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Discovering user profiles

Posted by: Anna Wojnarowska, Posted on: 11 January 2016 - Categories: GOV.UK
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...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...

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Guest post: joining a GDS service standard assessment panel

Posted by: Katy Arnold, Posted on: 7 January 2016 - Categories: Service design, User research
Service Standard Assessment wall

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,...

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About the People Board

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 4 January 2016 - Categories: GDS team
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Just before Christmas, we held the first meeting of the GDS People Board.

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2015 on the GDS blog

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 23 December 2015 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK
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It’s that time of year when everyone starts compiling their best of 2015 lists so we thought we’d do the same.

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Service Manual preparing for beta

Posted by: Tom Scott, Posted on: 21 December 2015 - Categories: Service design
Service design manual screenshot

The new Government Service Design Manual recently passed an alpha assessment and this is what we learned during the alpha.

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Finding things on GOV.UK

Posted by: The Finding Things Team, Posted on: 18 December 2015 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK
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The process that led to the birth of GOV.UK was fast. We transitioned 300+ websites onto one platform in 15 months. Delivering at speed had consequences: as we moved existing...

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Linking registers

Posted by: Paul Downey, Posted on: 16 December 2015 - Categories: Digital Service Platforms
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Paul Downey explains why registers have links, how links help users of data, and talks about some of the implications of linking for an organisation operating a register.

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