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Transforming our caseworking system to improve outcomes for our users

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Transforming our caseworking system to improve outcomes for our users

In line with our ‘Digital First’ agenda, we’ve modernised the Home Office caseworking process by digitising the customer journey through greater automation and better system integration.

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Delivery managers, product managers and service managers – how to get the best out of them

Posted by: Praveen Karadiguddi, Posted on: 15 November 2016 - Categories: Agile

...user researchers – are heavily involved in getting the user needs right for a service. The team is responsible for building the service to meet those needs in the right...

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What do service designers do?

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 11 November 2016 - Categories: Service design

...‘redesigning all the websites and letters, talking to everyone involved, reviewing casework processes, system maintenance and code, while understanding the wider context of someone’s real user journey – everything that...

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The first #DigitalGovWomen unconference: a man’s perspective

Posted by: Ben Stevens, Product Lead, Enablers, Posted on: 21 October 2016 - Categories: Diversity, Equality

...can pitch their discussion ideas to the audience, one-by-one, and once all the ideas have been heard, people choose which discussion they’d like to be a part of. The discussion...

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How a digital team is helping to resettle Syrian refugees

Posted by: Emily Mahon-Ball, Posted on: 19 October 2016 - Categories: Casework, Service design

...make matches to accommodation offers and to services in Local Authorities. We reused code from another service, which gave us a head-start. We built the service in an agile way,...

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From zero to delivery - our Sheffield hub start up

Posted by: Chris Roberts, Posted on: 4 October 2016 - Categories: Sheffield hub

...‘core ways of working.’ Then we thought that sounded a bit prescriptive. And if each team is doing one methodology totally out of the box, we probably won’t get the...

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What does transformation really mean?

Posted by: Kate Tarling, Posted on: 30 September 2016 - Categories: Service design, Transformation

...now that vision is suddenly out of date, so someone sets out a new vision. And so the cycle continues. This thinking reveals the belief that there can be a...

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Internal service assessments: how we maintain quality

Posted by: Alex Bartlett, Posted on: 20 September 2016 - Categories: Service assessments

...mandatory for public-facing transactional services, we hold all our internal services to the same standard. This is because our internal users are really important too. If we build great services...

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Sharing design patterns to work smarter

Posted by: Michael Owen and Ben Farber, Posted on: 8 September 2016 - Categories: Continuous improvement, Design, Service design

...all learning and trying new things. How do we share those learnings so that we make better decisions in the future? Here are some things we’re doing to better collaborate...

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The latest from the Home Office's Service Optimisation team

Posted by: Wasim Ahmed, Posted on: 2 September 2016 - Categories: Agile, Service optimisation
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...look after live services, as well as building new services. My team will initially be building the new firearms licensing services, while Paul’s team will be focusing on the UK...

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Three things I learned using future-mapping tools with users

Posted by: Saskia Leach, Posted on: 30 August 2016 - Categories: Service design, User research

...anything ‘wrong’. But for some it was too much of a leap. One participant managed to avoid touching or interacting with the cards for the whole session. However, this still...

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