Paul Bowsher

Classifying and measuring tech debt in GOV.UK

Paul Bowsher, 19 February 2018 - How we work

GOV.UK was built rapidly to meet a tight deadline. The push to get GOV.UK out of beta into live, transitioning 326 government websites onto the single domain, and closing down Directgov and BusinessLink resulted in a significant amount of technical …

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