I’m a bit late this month with my round-up of progress on the Digital Transformation Programme - I’ve had a couple of weeks summer hols leave, relaxing in the sunshine, so I’m keeping this post short and sweet. At this moment …
That’s the conclusion we came to when we asked our practitioners the question we get asked most often: how do I know how to get the best training in agile project management? At GDS we encourage the use of agile …
GDS is working with the Department for Business, Innovation & Skills and associated agencies on 5 of the 25 exemplar projects. Apprenticeship applications is one of the biggest of these services, with an anticipated 1.38m transactions a year. A digital …
It seems to me that these updates come around quicker every month but it may just be that we’ve had another busy few weeks across the transformation programme! Released this month The team at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) has …
Today exemplar number 4 - Renew a patent - becomes the 4th service released live into the world as part of the transformation programme. The team at the Intellectual Property Office (IPO) in Newport has worked with GDS to build this …
I’m Ash and I work in the GDS Transformation team. Recently I’ve been part of a team looking at the tricky topic of governance. This post is aimed at people who govern service delivery. It’s long, and we’re sorry about …
Regular readers of this blog will know that the transformation programme is supporting the redesign of 25 government services by March 2015 - making them simpler, clearer and faster to use. As you’d expect, delivery is speeding up as we …
Registered Traveller is a new service for frequent travellers coming to the UK who are citizens of the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand or Japan. By registering through this system beforehand, eligible travellers do not need to be processed through …
Last week marked the end of a 6-week proof of concept at the Land Registry, supported by GDS. The aim was build a concept for a digital service focussed on user needs. The result was to be shown to staff …
I’m a bit slow off the mark with my regular update this time around but that’s not because of a dearth of things to write about - quite the opposite in fact! Starting with a quick round-up of progress across …