Skip to main content

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Mike Bracken discusses the launch of the digital services framework, digital capability as part of the Civil Service Reform One Year On report and the SPRINT Alpha event next week. David Rennie from the ID Assurance team visited the Cloud …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: This week the Office of the Public Guardian released a beta for the Lasting Power of Attorney. We attended Civil Service Live and spoke on Digital by Default, G-Cloud and GOV.UK. Mike Bracken met Mark Sedwell the new Home …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: This week GOV.UK published the government spending round. GDS hosted the monthly meeting of its senior digital leaders, including presentations from Ken McCallum from BIS (Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) and Ashley Machin who told 'The Digital Story at …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: This week's video comes from our Transformation Programme Director, Mike Beaven. Last week the final three of our exemplar projects went into discovery, meaning all 25 have now reached discovery stage. There were two announcements about Identity Assurance this …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: The video comes this week from our monthly all staff meeting at the Royal College of Surgeons, which is everyone's chance to keep up to date with the work GDS is doing in 25 locations around the country. Our …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: Savings of £10bn were announced by the Efficiency and Reform Group this week - the part of the Cabinet Office in which GDS sits. Technology and GOV.UK have made a big contribution to that figure. We also announced the …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: Transaction work is making progress, including the launch this week of the discovery process for the e-Gates "exemplar" [service transformation to digital] in the Home Office, and the start of writing code for the Carers' Allowance transaction. Agile coaches …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: The launch of new guides for Chief Technology Officers on the Digital Service Manual. We also published the latest quarterly update on the transaction explorer which for the first time included information about the digital take up of all …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: The 1000th code release on GOV.UK - that's about seven every working day. We also created a team within HMRC to extend the way we've been working out into departments. At our big monthly team meeting on Wednesday we …

This week at GDS

Posted by: , Posted on: - Categories: GDS team

Highlights: Progress this week on a new supplier framework, approaching launch around the end of this month, which will provide the whole of government with access to a broader range of digital and agile suppliers. GDS have also been working …