This Parliament ends on 30 March. Between then and the general election on 7 May is the pre-election period and the Civil Service communicates less, in line with the General Election Guidance.
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 …
On 9 July I hosted a brand new event called StackMaps. StackMaps aimed to consider how the geospatial data government holds can be used to produce high quality user-facing services. The idea was to bring together some of the people …
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 takes a great deal of hard work behind the scenes to ensure that the delivery of any redesigned digital service remains on track. Many of the teams on our 25 exemplar projects are working to deadlines that are closely linked …
As David mentioned in his latest highlights post, the Transformation programme was recently invited to take part in Civil Service Live. This annual conference takes place at locations around the UK and brings together public sector workers and private sector …
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 …