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Service assessments improvements: Life after Live

Roger on 30/06/2020

The GDS assurance process is designed to fit around the agile phases. We do assessments at the end of Alpha, the end of Private Beta, and the end of Public Beta going into Live. After that last assessment, we don’t currently have any planned formal engagement with service teams. That is, until the service puts in a new spend approval bid.

Blogging and working in the open

Roger on 26/06/2020

This is a talk I gave to the GDS product management community a year ago. It’s mostly aimed at other people working in digital transformation of government, but actually I think everyone should blog a bit.

An ode to writing with a human voice – Joshua Mouldey

Roger on 12/06/2020

One of the defining characteristics of the so-called web 2.0 era was the increase in direct dialogue between writers and audiences (in the broadest senses of those terms).

Living in the future: reflections from Services Week 2020

Roger on 08/06/2020

Last week was Services Week — organised by the Government Digital Service as a series of events for UK government, but very much a celebration of work across different design and digital teams in the UK. It was noticeable how many teams and organisations were contributing to, or organising events.

Digital service teams in government

Roger on 06/06/2020

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0740624X17304963

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