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GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership 

GOV.UK Wallet Building momentum, working in partnership

GOV.UK Wallet: Building momentum, working in partnership 

An update about GOV.UK Wallet and our engagement with the technology sector.

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Liam Maxwell commits to CTO post until 2018

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 26 September 2014 - Categories: GDS team
Liam Maxwell

...as Chief Technology Officer for government until at least 2018. That's good news for all sorts of reasons. Liam is famous around government for waving his phone at people. Wrapped...

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The Public Guardian on agile development

Posted by: James Holloway, Posted on: 26 September 2014 - Categories: Transformation

You hear the word agile in government a lot these days. And not only within the teams making digital services. Agile development is a way to make software. We build...

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Here's what we mean by building for inclusion

Posted by: Mike Bracken - former Executive Director, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 23 September 2014 - Categories: Transformation
Angela Scale from the apprenticeships team

...the concept that I’ll be able to improve the service whenever I need to – that’s a huge change for the Agency.” The alpha successfully passed a Service Standard Assessment...

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Visas: user research from 5,000 miles

Posted by: Dave Mills, Posted on: 18 September 2014 - Categories: Transformation
China visas office

Hi, my name’s Dave Mills and I am the Product Owner for UK Visa and Immigration’s China visit visa exemplar – part of the Immigration Platform Technology programme. My background...

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You can now book a prison visit online

Posted by: Jake Barlow - former Director for GOV.UK, Government Digital Service, Posted on: 15 September 2014 - Categories: Transformation

Booking a prison visit should be simple and straightforward. Until now that was far from the case.

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Time for tea: the EE Techy Tea Party

Posted by: The GDS Team, Posted on: 10 September 2014 - Categories: Events
Sir Francis Maude at the EE Techy Tea Party

...a bonus that it was at the Houses of Parliament and there was great cake too! Join the conversation on Twitter, and don't forget to sign up for email alerts....

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Please release me: building a new statistical release calendar

Posted by: Sam Hall, Posted on: 9 September 2014 - Categories: Data, GOV.UK
Image courtesy of Simon Cunningham under a Creative Commons license.

Image courtesy of Simon Cunningham under a Creative Commons license. Sam Hall is Head of Publishing Operations at the Office for National Statistics. Statistics may be defined as "a body...

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Service standard - how’s it going?

Posted by: Olivia Neal, Posted on: 5 September 2014 - Categories: Service design
service standard wall

The digital by default service standard went fully live in April. That means that, in line with the Government Digital Strategy, all new and redesigned public facing services have to...

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Vertical campfires: our user research walls

Posted by: Kate Towsey, Posted on: 3 September 2014 - Categories: User research
Assisted Digital wall, cross-government workshops, 01.07.14 - Kate Towsey (1)

...some of ours. Carer’s Allowance: mapping the service transaction Many teams use their wall to map out end-to-end transactions for a service. The Carer’s Allowance team have done just that....

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Say the dot

Posted by: Giles Turnbull, Posted on: 1 September 2014 - Categories: GOV.UK
Say the dot out loud

Back in May, we wrote a short post explaining why we write the name of our website as GOV.UK, in capitals, and the URL as www.gov.uk, so that people know it’s a URL

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