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Graduates: accelerate your digital and data career on our Dynamic Graduate Scheme

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Graduates: accelerate your digital and data career on our Dynamic Graduate Scheme

Our 2025 Dynamic Graduate Scheme is now open for a limited time until 7 July. We have multiple digital roles for graduates. Read about how the scheme can supercharge your tech career.

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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...now that vision is suddenly out of date, so someone sets out a new vision.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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Why we should all try being a content designer

Posted by: Tim Britton, Posted on: 10 August 2016 - Categories: Content

...long-term, but my brief foray has taught me a lot. I think it can do the same for most people working in digital. Care about the message, not the words...

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My experience as a female developer

Posted by: Barbara Cassani, Posted on: 4 August 2016 - Categories: Development, Diversity

...good code as part of a team, not to win a popularity contest. Some offices are better than others Developers, male or female, are in demand. And that’s a fact...

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The government’s role in open source

Posted by: Tim Gent, Posted on: 15 July 2016 - Categories: Development, Open source
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...than software owned by an individual or a company (also known as proprietary software). Where we are today Today we use a lot of open source software in government projects....

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