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The pre-election period

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The pre-election period

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.

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Lessons from the sharp end of digital service transformation: standardising process with the Prison visit booking service

Jake Barlow, 4 March 2015 — Exemplar projects

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In the continuing series of posts from people across government who've been involved in the Transformation Programme, GDS Transformation Lead Jake Barlow shares a highlight of delivering the Prison visit booking exemplar as a Digital by Default service.

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Lessons from the sharp end of digital service transformation: a look back at developing View Driving Licence

Ryan Davies, 2 March 2015 — Exemplar projects, Guest blog

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  In the first of a series of posts from people across government who've been involved in the Transformation Programme, DVLA's Ryan Davies takes a look at the ups and downs of delivering the View driving licence exemplar as a Digital by Default service.

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Guest blog: A view of Sprint 15 from the Home Office

Stephen Taylor, 9 February 2015 — Events, Guest blog

Arriving at Sprint 15

On 3 February Sprint 15 celebrated the success of digital transformation across Government over the last couple of years and also set challenges for the years to come.

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Looking back at Sprint Beta, and forward to Sprint 15

Mike Beaven, 29 January 2015 — Events

Sprint 15

On 25 September we held Sprint Beta at the Arnolfini by the harbour-side in Bristol.

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Recent highlights: digital transformation programme

David Dilley, 18 December 2014 — Exemplar projects, Programme updates

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Here’s the latest from the Transformation Programme, including some news from the departments and agencies among our exemplar services. Releases The new Carer’s Allowance service went live on 28 November. The launch of this service coincided with Carer’s Rights Day …

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New Find an apprenticeship service public beta released

Rebecca Hales, 16 December 2014 — Exemplar projects, Programme updates

Start page for new apprenticeship

On December 9 the new Find an apprenticeship service became the latest exemplar to be released to the public as a beta service and already users have been applying for jobs with almost 1,800 registering within the first week. The online …

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A look back at Prison visit bookings: using data to troubleshoot a digital service

Tony Duarte, 15 December 2014 — Exemplar projects, Guest blog

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I’m Tony Duarte, Product Service Manager at Ministry of Justice. I’ve been working on the Prison visit booking exemplar, which has been live since September. As it’s always better to talk not about how to do things, but how they …

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Doing the right things in the right way: agile governance at the Home Office

Hugh Ivory, 11 December 2014 — Exemplar projects, Training

I’m Hugh Ivory, I work in the GDS Transformation team. Recently I’ve been working with our colleagues in the Immigration Platform Technologies (IPT) Programme at the Home Office to run a governance pilot. The purpose was to help them govern …

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Show and tell for digital analysts in UK government services

Jim Williams, 3 December 2014 — Events

A show and tell was held for digital analysts working on government services met for a show and tell at the Home Office on 14 November. This was the second meeting in what we intend to be a bi-monthly event. Why …

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5 lessons learnt: getting services live

Mark O'Neill, 24 November 2014 — Exemplar projects, Programme updates, Training

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We’re far enough into the Transformation Programme - with 7 services now live and more on the way - to have learnt a thing or two about releasing a digital service into the wild. As you’d expect, it isn’t as …

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Digital transformation

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