What do we mean by responsible building?
...building anything else Alan Wright, Lead Delivery Manager for GOV.UK Responsible builders consider the needs of future colleagues who will maintain and improve their products in years to come. They...
How we work
Starting up a new team
GOV.UK was recently restructured to help us achieve our 2017/18 roadmap. As a delivery manager, I oversaw the formation of 2 new teams under the new roadmap: Content History and Worldwide Publishing.
Upgrading uprating
At the start of every tax year, we make a large number of content changes to GOV.UK. As the majority of these changes relate to increases in tax rates and thresholds, we call this process ‘uprating’.
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.
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.
How we made the GOV.UK roadmap
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How we work, Vision and plans
...example, lots of GOV.UK’s work in the next financial year is tied into expanding the content operating model work over the coming years so that it’s easier for users to...
How we use Trello on the GOV.UK Publishing Platform team
Teams at GDS are free to pick the processes and tools that work for them. On the GOV.UK Publishing Platform, our Kanban process is supported by Trello.
How we use Kanban on the GOV.UK Publishing Platform team
At GDS, we believe that self-organising teams create the best results. So we give each of our teams the autonomy to pick the delivery approach that works best for them.
Talk more, queue less: faster updates for GOV.UK
We’re trying to make it quicker to update content on GOV.UK. We’re doing this by talking to each other more when we write content, which is making our work better and cutting down the time our editing process takes.
Guest post: What a difference 2 weeks can make…
We’re Ronni Taylor and Phil Hogg and we’re both HMRC content designers. We usually work in HMRC’s Manchester Digital Design Centre but for 2 weeks in August we moved down south to work alongside our GDS colleagues in London. It’s …
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Download the GOV.UK app
The GOV.UK app went live in public beta in July 2025. Find out how to download it for free on GOV.UK.