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How to pair program effectively in 6 steps
GDS has used pair programming since its inception. It plays an important role in building our services. I recently gave a talk titled ‘How to be a good pair’ and the warm reception of the talk...
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The Government Transformation Strategy - one year on
A year ago we published the Government Transformation Strategy. This strategy outlines how we – GDS and everyone across all departments – are working to transform government together. Over the past...
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Data team wins Future Policy Network award
The Future Policy Network is a cross-government group of teams that focus on innovative approaches to delivery and policy making. To celebrate the one year anniversary of the network and recognise...
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Making sure our blogging meets user needs
When I joined GDS as the head of editorial in March last year, we had 15 different blogs. It was a real mix – the main GDS blog, some community-focused blogs and some programme blogs. The blogs had a...
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Sprint 18: talking about the future of transformation
On 10 May GDS will be hosting Sprint 18. This will be an event to celebrate all the great work that has been done so far to transform government – and to look at what we’ll be doing next. We’re...
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GDS: proving what’s possible
Earlier this month I visited GDS staff in the White Chapel Building with my senior management team. I was last there in the summer – and it was great to see everyone now fully settled in. The office...
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What we need to do to support end-to-end services across government
We’re currently updating the Digital Service Standard. The standard exists to help government build and run effective, user-focused digital services, and came into force in April 2014. We’re updating...
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Celebrating International Women’s Day
To mark International Women’s Day, we’ve asked our colleagues in technical roles to share what it’s like to work in government and how we can encourage more women to join the digital, data and...
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Help the Digital Marketplace go global
The Digital Marketplace is transforming the way government buys technology and digital services by opening the market up to small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) suppliers. A total of £3.2 billion...
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The GDS Academy foundation course: 1,000 graduates and counting
Today the GDS Academy celebrates the 1,000th graduate from its digital and agile foundation course. This 10-day course - an introduction to agile and digital in government - has been running since the...
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What do we mean when we talk about services?
We’re currently iterating the Service Standard. As it says in the Government Transformation Strategy, we need to transform whole citizen-facing services, to continue to make things better for users...
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Refreshing the Open Standards Principles
We have revised the Open Standards Principles to make it easier for departments to adopt open standards. We iterated the existing Open Standards Principles as part of the Government Transformation...
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How GDS is enabling DCMS colleagues to break into coding
In November, Sarah Foster and Jasper Pandza from the Department for Digital, Culture Media and Sport (DCMS) got in touch with GDS to find out about the work it does with Codebar, a non-profit...
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GOV.UK: a journey in scaling agile
GOV.UK is relied on by millions of people every day to access vital services and information. Material published on GOV.UK can move financial markets. GOV.UK is a vital part of our national...
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How we’ve made things simpler for suppliers on G-Cloud 10
The G-Cloud 10 framework is now open for applications, meaning that new and existing suppliers can offer their cloud technology and support to organisations across the public sector. G-Cloud 10 is run...
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Consultation launch: accessibility of public sector websites and apps
A poster showing advice for designing for screen reader users. The posters are available to download. This year the UK is implementing the EU Directive on the accessibility of public sector websites...
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We’re improving the digital and IT spend controls process
Over the past 5 years, the Government Digital Service (GDS) has helped save over £1 billion by working with departments to identify better and cheaper ways to deliver IT and digital products and...
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What’s coming up at Sprint 18
It's now only 1 week until #Sprint18! Sprint 18 is coming up on 10 May. As I wrote in my previous blog post to announce the event, Sprint 18 will be an opportunity to celebrate all the great work...
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10 May 2018: Sprint 18 live blog
16:20 Thank you for joining us on the live blog today and contributing to the discussions on Twitter (#Sprint18)! We’re hoping the conversations continue beyond today. Did you find the content of this...
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What we’re doing to make it easier to blog at GDS
A couple of months ago, I blogged about some changes we were making to our blog channels to make sure they meet user needs, and how we’re improving the internal blogging process at GDS. As I said in...
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