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Agile testing at the Home Office

Posted by: Mat Costick, Posted on: 26 November 2013 - Categories: Transformation

...acceptance tests, system integration tests and assurance tests. As part of the assurance role we’d get involved in writing contract requirements for testing and then assure suppliers’ capability to do...

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Digital skills at the very top

Posted by: Shelia Bennett, Posted on: 11 November 2013 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

An important part of the work we are doing on capability building is making sure that people who will be leading public services in the future really understand what digital by default means; for policy-making and service delivery. Civil Service …

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Supporting service managers

Posted by: Paul Slade, Posted on: 8 October 2013 - Categories: GDS team, Transformation

The Government Digital Strategy described a new role crucial for helping create digital services so good that people choose to use them - the service manager. We’ve started an induction and development programme for those people, prototyping and learning as …

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