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

Agile cycle. Requirements, design, develop, test, deploy, review

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

Making accurate payments to providers and employers is a key aim of the Apprenticeship Service and a key user need to address. Gary Tucker, Deputy Director at the Apprenticeship Service, talks about how the Service has created very accurate payments and built a capability to ensure apprentices are given the opportunities they deserve.

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Forming connections: integrating in the Agile World

Posted by: Ian Tress and Chris Thompson, Posted on: 14 July 2015 - Categories: Agile, Solution Design and Innovation

...work, test some concepts, fail fast and deliver product faster. Most importantly for me – and as discussed in Chris's last blog – there was a clear shared context of...

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Service Based Design

Posted by: Chris Langman, Posted on: 6 July 2015 - Categories: 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,...

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My software development apprenticeship at the SFA

Posted by: Joe Ingledew, Posted on: 18 June 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Jobs and careers, Solution Design and Innovation
Iphone with headphones plugged into it, displaying the GOV.UK homepage of Find an Apprenticeship

...Service and an apprenticeship in Software Development at the SFA. I applied for the apprenticeship and a couple of interviews later, was plunged right into the deep end. My communication...

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Common user research myths

Posted by: Vanessa Clynes, Posted on: 4 June 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service, User research

...sure your designs work for your audience. 3. What works for Amazon will work for us (or Google, or Apple) Ah, the heady days of Discovery! How often have we...

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Delivery Manager diary: I got the job

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 3 June 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management, Jobs and careers

...that secondments are ideal and can work well within the civil service. I have found that support always seems to be there. I shall do my best to log regularly...

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Find an apprenticeship - assisted digital user research

Posted by: Jess Gough, Posted on: 22 May 2015 - Categories: 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...

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Pre-election period

Posted by: Uchenna Ndikom, Posted on: 29 March 2015 - Categories: 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...

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

Posted by: Chris Langman, Posted on: 29 March 2015 - Categories: Agile, Data

...whilst the rest of us share easily understood material in widely available software. Oh, and it’s cheap. Make sure those data models see the light of day - produce data...

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Put your interfaces in context

Posted by: Chris Thompson, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Data, Solution Design and Innovation

...then you’d set up the invoicing system with the relevant fields and write the integration code. It performs brilliantly. Well done. Except the bulbs that the invoicing people were interested...

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Service Integration and Management - SIAM 3 months in

Posted by: Joseph McDonnell, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: 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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