The role of the agile wall at GDS
As Mark mentioned in his blog post last week, daily stand ups at GDS take place in front of the team walls. The walls are a great focus for the teams, but they have a lot of other benefits that …
Meet the Transformation team
We've previously introduced the Finance team and the Hosting and Infrastructure team, and shone the Spotlight on procurement. Now we invite you to find out more about the work of the Transformation team.
A day in the life of a delivery manager
‘A day in the life of...’ articles typically go something like this, “8:02: my day starts with a walk over Waterloo Bridge. A flat white later and I'm ready to begin. Some quiet minutes to check emails before studying the …
People management in an agile setting
After speaking at AgileTeaCamp, I thought I would share how people management has evolved in the GDS Delivery Team. What you get for free with agile Agile product teams are self-managing. With the users' needs in mind, the product manager defines what …
Iterating the trade tariff tool with HMRC
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Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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GOV.UK
One of the tools we’ve created on GOV.UK is the Trade Tariff tool. It contains up-to-date and historical information on the duty you have to pay when importing and exporting goods outside the UK and the EU. The tool lets …
What I've learned (so far) doing product management in government
I was recently invited to give a short talk at Agile Teacamp, an event where people come to learn about and share their experiences with agile software development. They're friendly and informal events held over a cup of tea in a department store …
The speed of change
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Chris Heathcote - Product Manager for Accessibility Monitoring, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Content design, GOV.UK
When a user sent a tweet about a possible improvement on GOV.UK, it became a great example of how quickly an agile team can respond to feedback. Chris Heathcote from the GDS design team explains how size doesn't necessarily mean …
Riding the Paradigm - where agile meets programme
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Mike Beaven - former Director for Transformation, Government Digital Service, Posted on:
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Transformation
There are challenges to running an agile approach to delivery inside a larger organisation where agile is not yet fully understood. We are frequently asked how we approach these challenges and manage them here at GDS, so here Mike Beaven …
Throw away Photoshop and be true to your medium
At GDS, we have been building teams focused around product rather than teams focused solely on expertise and I am pretty typical of this ethos. My background is graphic design, so working on the web meant I needed to learn …
What happened at the 2nd AgileTea camp?
Another very well attended AgileTea last Thursday at Cafe Zest! The theme of the session was 'Procure and Deliver', timely given the recent focus on Chris Chant's blog post, the Government's Supplier event on 21 November on how Government wanted to make it …
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