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Following on from the recent trio of posts in which we talked about the operating context, team structure and goals for GOV.UK in 2015 to 2016, we’ve now completed the work to plan a high-level roadmap for 9 months ahead.
GOV.UK will be 3 years old this October. So we decided it was time for a group of content designers to take a more detailed look at how GOV.UK works on mobile devices. We knew GOV.UK was designed to be …
Last Wednesday, GOV.UK’s team of 22 developers upgraded and re-deployed a record 54 applications in just 6 hours. This was to deal with a potential security threat discovered in the software we use (Ruby on Rails and some dependent libraries). On …
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. We’ve defined a new set of high-level goals to guide what the GOV.UK team does between now and April 2016. This post shares …
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals We’re restructuring the teams in our product group to reflect the new normal for GOV.UK. This post explains why we’re making changes, what …
This post is part of a series. See the introduction here: New normal, new teams, new goals. Since the beta release of GOV.UK in January 2012, the GOV.UK team has been hard at work building, scaling up and iterating the …
It’s been a while since we’ve shared a roadmap for GOV.UK. Our previous plans took us up to the end of the election and the start of the new financial year, but we couldn’t plan much beyond that until the …
Why we need a community There are more than 350 analytics users across government departments, agencies and arm’s length bodies (A/ALBs). They want information on analytics techniques and best practice; we at GDS want to learn what different types of …
On 19 May 2015, we held a content clinic at the Department for Education, with 15 editors from 8 organisations. Quantitative content analysis To start, Jonathan Richardson spoke about Defra’s smarter guidance programme, and how he’s built a tool to …
We're entering the pre-election period now, so this blog is going quiet until after the election. But we'll leave you with a look at the ways in which GOV.UK will help you see what's going on as the election approaches.