The phases of the Government Service Design Manual

The Government Service Design Manual (https://www.gov.uk/service-manual) is a useful resource of managing your digital projects. If you’re familiar with Agile methodologies and some of the DevOps principles you’ll probably find that it covers the same ground. However it is very well presented and written in clear non-jargon terms so it’s worth a look. The only…

Local GDS Workshop

I was fortunate enough to be invited to the Local GDS workshop held, last Friday, at the Government Digital Services (GDS) headquarters in London. The workshop gave a great insight into the Standards developed and being used by the GDS team and led to many discussions about whether they could be applied to Local Government….

GDS for Local Government

The Government Digital Service (GDS) have been transforming Central Government over the last few years and by all accounts achieving great success. People are now talking about them turning their focus to Local Government but to do that they will have to overcome some obstacles.The possibility of GDS tackling Local Government is described in a…