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How we do user research in agile teams

Posted by: Leisa Reichelt, Posted on: 30 August 2013 - Categories: GDS team

Getting user research into agile teams in a way that is timely, relevant and actionable is a challenge that teams the world over are tackling. Working effectively in agile has recently been the driver of some fairly significant changes to …

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Constant revision: a student's take on GDS

Posted by: Andrew Langhorn, Posted on: 4 February 2013 - Categories: Digital strategy, GDS team

...other publications form the basis of e-government theories and initiatives. After a few days of research, I found Martha Lane Fox’s somewhat legendary report on Directgov. I was excited to...

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Researching Inside Government

Posted by: Angela Collins Rees, Posted on: 20 December 2012 - Categories: GDS team, GOV.UK

Hi I’m Angela, I work in the User Research Team and would like to talk about the range of research we conducted in the run up to the launch of Inside Government. Just to recap, on 15 November the GDS …

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