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Forming connections: integrating in the Agile World

Ian Tress and Chris Thompson, 14 July 2015 - Agile, Solution Design and Innovation

In the past couple of years two of the key software development programmes within the Agency have switched from a traditional outsourced, waterfall-led arrangement, to a much more agile, internally controlled framework.

Service Based Design

Chris Langman, 6 July 2015 - Data

Service Based Design - a phrase with the words ‘master’ and ‘data’ nowhere to be seen. Ah, so that’s it, build a few services, knock out a few corporate schemas, forget about data (storage is cheap after all) and the savings …

My software development apprenticeship at the SFA

Joe Ingledew, 18 June 2015 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Jobs and careers, Solution Design and Innovation

Two million UK apprenticeships were created in the last parliament. As one of those two million, I'd like to talk about my experience working in the Skills Funding Agency. I started here just over two years ago, a university drop-out stuck in a …

Common user research myths

Vanessa Clynes, 4 June 2015 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service, User research

Having a deep understanding of our users’ needs is crucial for building successful digital services. Here Vanessa, one of our User Researchers, rounds up some of the most common user research myths she's come across. If there are any you think …

Delivery Manager diary: I got the job

Piers Dunstall, 3 June 2015 - Agile, Delivery Management, Jobs and careers

Back in January, I started a secondment as a Delivery Manager. Here’s a little note to update you all on my progress. I know I haven’t blogged in little while, there was a period of purdah and some personal holiday …

Find an apprenticeship - assisted digital user research

Jess Gough, 22 May 2015 - Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service, User research

Jessica Gough, User Research Manager for our Find an Apprenticeship exemplar service, recently wrote a post for GDS's Assisted Digital blog. In the post she looks at how we're conducting user research with young people who have learning difficulties or lower literacy …

Pre-election period

Uchenna Ndikom, 29 March 2015 - Team news

Between 30 March and the general election on 7 May, the Civil Service is in "purdah", the pre-election period. During this time the Civil Service communicates less, in line with the General Election Guidance.

The Data Modelling Trilogy: Agile Data Modelling or Data Modelling in an Agile project

Chris Langman, 29 March 2015 - Agile, Data

The SFA has recently made the move from waterfall to agile. So how do you adapt data modelling for a Agile project? What one produces and why one produces it doesn’t change, but how it gets produced does. Agile data modelling still …

Put your interfaces in context

Chris Thompson, 27 March 2015 - Data, Solution Design and Innovation

You know that old song about you saying ‘pot-at-o’ and me saying ‘pot-ay-to’ when we’re talking about the same thing? We often need to have similar conversations about data when you are designing interfaces. Data mapping is often deceptively easy, but …

Service Integration and Management - SIAM 3 months in

Joseph McDonnell, 27 March 2015 - Technology

In a previous blog we explained that we have moved away from large IT contracts, handled by a single outsourcer, to a “tower model”. In this model separate IT components are supplied by different companies, and Service Integration and Management …

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Why in a time when change is constant is it so important to create stability for our users?

Why in a time when change is constant is it so important to create stability for our users?

Forming connections: integrating in the Agile World

Service Based Design

My software development apprenticeship at the SFA

Common user research myths

Delivery Manager diary: I got the job

Find an apprenticeship - assisted digital user research

Pre-election period

The Data Modelling Trilogy: Agile Data Modelling or Data Modelling in an Agile project

Put your interfaces in context

Service Integration and Management - SIAM 3 months in

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