Public reading stages – a second iteration
Last Thursday the second iteration of a tool to allow comments on Bills passing through the House of Commons process went live. Steph Gray from Helpful Technology explains why a second iteration was...
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E-petitions is the very first product delivered by GDS and last week it celebrated its first birthday. Pete Herlihy, product owner for e-petitions reviews the year in numbers. It’s been an eventful and...
View ArticleRefining transactions with help from the Minister
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Student Loans Company (SLC) team released a new loan application service for part-time students on Wednesday. I wanted to take a minute...
View ArticleTools over Content
I’ve talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I’d like to take a step back and about one of our early design rules: “tools over content”. Many...
View ArticleShipping the digital strategy
As you know, today we launched the Government Digital Strategy. I’m part of the team that was tasked with putting these documents online, and from the outset we wanted to do it in a much more...
View ArticlePublishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one
I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but its worth pointing out that the...
View ArticleChanges to the strategy
A few weeks ago I wrote a post detailing the technical side of the Government Digital Strategy. One of the things I spoke about was how we were keen to keep improving the site and fixing bugs. We were...
View ArticleThe Future is Here
The future of UK Government Digital Services is here. On January 21st 2013 at Sprint 13 we will show the best of digital from across government, all packed into one morning. Who is this for? All those...
View Article400 days to transform government
Stephen Kelly, Chief Operating Officer for Government, writes about SPRINT 13. Last week I was delighted to participate in SPRINT 13 the cross government digital event organized by GDS. It was great to...
View ArticlePublic reading stages – a second iteration
Last Thursday the second iteration of a tool to allow comments on Bills passing through the House of Commons process went live. Steph Gray from Helpful Technology explains why a second iteration was...
View ArticleWhat I’ve learned (so far) doing product management in government
I was recently invited to give a short talk at Agile Teacamp, an event where people come to learn about and share their experiences with agile software development. They’re friendly and informal events...
View ArticleHappy birthday e-petitions – a year in numbers
E-petitions is the very first product delivered by GDS and last week it celebrated its first birthday. Pete Herlihy, product owner for e-petitions reviews the year in numbers. It’s been an eventful and...
View ArticleRefining transactions with help from the Minister
The Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) and the Student Loans Company (SLC) team released a new loan application service for part-time students on Wednesday. I wanted to take a minute...
View ArticleTools over Content
I’ve talked before about various aspects of how we build software at GDS, and especially for GOV.UK, but I’d like to take a step back and about one of our early design rules: “tools over content”. Many...
View ArticleShipping the digital strategy
As you know, today we launched the Government Digital Strategy. I’m part of the team that was tasked with putting these documents online, and from the outset we wanted to do it in a much more...
View ArticlePublishing the Digital Strategy as a website, rather than on one
I’m Andrew Francis and I’m a policy professional. So is my colleague Sheila Bennett. You might not have heard much from our profession here on the GDS blog recently, but its worth pointing out that the...
View ArticleChanges to the strategy
A few weeks ago I wrote a post detailing the technical side of the Government Digital Strategy. One of the things I spoke about was how we were keen to keep improving the site and fixing bugs. We were...
View ArticleThe Future is Here
The future of UK Government Digital Services is here. On January 21st 2013 at Sprint 13 we will show the best of digital from across government, all packed into one morning. Who is this for? All those...
View Article400 days to transform government
Stephen Kelly, Chief Operating Officer for Government, writes about SPRINT 13. Last week I was delighted to participate in SPRINT 13 the cross government digital event organized by GDS. It was great to...
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