Creating the conditions for transformation
Creating the conditions for transformation
CustomerFirst shares early lessons from its work with the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA).
GOV.UK Verify - one year of public beta
GOV.UK Verify recently passed one year in public beta. Programme Director Janet Hughes talks about what the last year has involved, and why the team is focusing on the months ahead.
How digital and technology transformation saved £1.7bn last year
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Stephen Foreshew-Cain - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
We’ve always said that transforming government’s approach to digital and technology would save money, and it has.
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
...afford. For example: look at GOV.UK Verify, which is stimulating the identity services market. It is setting standards, aggregating demand across government and government services, building a whole new market...
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
...of UAT. So, actually consolidating that into one team, which is what we’re doing after ‘Exit’, into one function is a massive opportunity for us. It’s a chance to work...
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.
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