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The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The 2017 to 2018 GOV.UK roadmap
The goal for GOV.UK in the next financial year is: “make the single domain work harder for users”.
Incident report: PDFs not available from Licensing application
This post is about a severity 2 incident affecting the GOV.UK website. We routinely publish incident reports because we believe we should be open about our mistakes and share our learning. We’ve posted before about what happens when things go …
2 week blitz - kickstarting the new roadmap
In early April we kickstarted our new 2017 to 2018 roadmap with a 2 week blitz period. As we formed new teams centralised around the roadmap missions, each team was given a single ‘must do’ task.
Quarterly update: wrapping up 2016 to 2017 and starting our new roadmap
On 3 April 2017, GOV.UK began its new roadmap. Here’s a summary of what we delivered in the final quarter of the 2016 to 2017 roadmap, and the work that’s to follow.
The pre-election period
In the coming weeks, you will notice that it’s much quieter than usual on this blog and all the other blogs run by GDS. It’s because between midnight on Friday, 21 April and the general election on 8 June is …
Incident roundup - part 2
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. This post is a roundup of 5 incidents that GOV.UK encountered between August and October 2016. It follows on …
Incident roundup - part 1
We’ve posted before about what happens when things go wrong on GOV.UK, and how we classify and prioritise incidents on GOV.UK. Every incident teaches us something new about our technology or the way we communicate with each other.
Making tagging part of publishing
We’re working to make tagging content to the new taxonomy a simple, routine step in the GOV.UK publishing process. The Finding Things team have been creating the first complete taxonomy for GOV.UK, starting with Education. This taxonomy powers a new …
Questions to help you define your mission - a thing for product managers
GOV.UK is a busy programme. Every fortnight, we in the programme team check in with our teams to find out what they’ve been up to, what their blockers are, and what they need from us.
Bigger and better: ConCon5, the 5th cross-government content conference
We held the fifth cross-government content conference - ConCon5 - in London on Wednesday 15 March. It was the biggest yet, with over 275 people attending on the day and 73 watching the live stream.
Guest post: Transition is supporting transformation at Public Health England
Public Health England (PHE) is well underway in transitioning it’s numerous legacy websites. With support from GDS we're transforming our content to meet our users’ needs.