Digital people

Reflections of our colleagues who joined Muslims at GDS for a day of fasting

Arfah Farooq, 5 June 2020 - Community, Diversity and Inclusion

After being established for a year, the Muslims at GDS community found a way to celebrate Ramadan and involve the wider GDS community. Colleagues reflect on their remote participation in a fast-a-thon.

How I Co-Created the Delivery Managers Learning List

Myles Jarvis, 15 May 2020 - Communities of practice, Digital data and technology, Digital Data and Technology Fast Stream, Emerging talent, People and Skills

In this post Myles Jarvis, a Delivery Manager at the Department for Education, takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Delivery Management learning list, a useful resource for delivery managers, with the support of the cross-government delivery management community.

DeliverCon 2020: A journey of discovery in the Discovery Museum, Newcastle

Myles Jarvis, 30 April 2020 - People and Skills, Skills and Learning, Training and progression

Myles Jarvis shares his experience of attending DeliverCon 2020, the government conference for Delivery Managers, in Newcastle.

Running an engaging away (game) day

Joshua Kuforiji, 20 April 2020 - Skills and Learning, Uncategorized, Working at GDS

The Technical Operations (TechOps) department of GDS came together and took part in a department-wide ‘game day’. Find out more about what a game day is and what we actually did.

The Civil Service and tech industry pitch solutions to solve public sector challenges

Britanni Anglestone, Talent Development Advisor, Government Digital Service (GDS), 11 March 2020 - Business development, Digital data and technology, Digital Data and Technology Fast Stream

Tech Connect, a 12 week digital skills programme, saw teams of civil servants and private sector participants collaborate to find solutions for public sector challenges. Find out more about their ideas, and what happened at the Finale.

How we scaled the Introduction to Product Management course

Arfah Farooq, Community Manager - Product and Delivery, 9 March 2020 - Communities of practice, Product Management, Training and progression

The Introduction to Product Management course is aimed at non-product managers who want to understand the role in more detail and learn techniques they can apply in their own roles. Find out more about the course and how we've developed it with help from the Product Management community.

How do you attract more Software Developers into your department?

Britanni Anglestone, Talent Development Advisor, Government Digital Service (GDS), 3 February 2020 - Apprenticeships and internships, Digital data and technology, People and Skills

The Software Developer Accelerated Apprenticeship offers an opportunity to existing civil servants to retrain as junior developers. Departments, apprentices and their line managers explain what they liked most about the programme.

What is 'product leadership' and what skills do product leaders need?

Jonathan Forman, Head of the Product Management Community, Government Digital Service and Digital, Data and Technology Profession, 18 November 2019 - Communities of practice, People and Skills, Product Management

People working in product management roles often have a very broad set of responsibilities, and the role can vary greatly between departments and teams. This makes product management a difficult discipline to learn without doing. Find out more about the skills you need to be a successful product leader.

Want to be a part of building and transforming the government of tomorrow? Meet us at Silicon Milkroundabout

Daniel Sintim, Diversity, Inclusion and Talent Specialist, Government Digital Service, 13 November 2019 - People and Skills, Recruitment

On 23 and 24 November, our digital, data and technology (DDaT) teams from across government will once again return to Europe’s largest tech job fair to engage and interact with thousands of candidates. Register to attend and visit us at our stand 106/107.

Making the Digital, Data and Technology Capability Framework more user friendly

Digital, Data and Technology Profession team, 24 October 2019 - Digital data and technology

We have reviewed the Framework, so we could understand the problems and plan ways to address them. Read more about what we learned and what actions we are taking to fix it.

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