I’m Hugh Ivory, I work in the GDS Transformation team. Recently I’ve been working with our colleagues in the Immigration Platform Technologies (IPT) Programme at the Home Office to run a governance pilot. The purpose was to help them govern …
We’re far enough into the Transformation Programme - with 7 services now live and more on the way - to have learnt a thing or two about releasing a digital service into the wild. As you’d expect, it isn’t as …
Last week GDS hosted Sprint Beta in Bristol. The event was designed to allow people involved in the Transformation Programme from departments and agencies all around the country to gather, discuss what they’ve achieved so far and share their challenges, …
I’m James Ashton and I work as a delivery manager for the Transformation Programme. We have just published the first part of our guidance on governance for service delivery and we’d like to know what you think of it. Publication …
Natalie Taylor is the transformation manager for the Registered Traveller Service team at the Home Office. Here she suggests some new ways of conducting retrospectives as the team makes their digital transformation journey: the ‘appreciative retrospective’ is about focusing on the …
We’re content designers working on GOV.UK and the exemplar services. We ran our first content for services workshop recently (many thanks to everyone who came along) and wanted to pass on some tips on creating content for services. Hopefully these will …
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 …
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 …