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Guest post: embracing the future in government technology

Posted by: Denise McDonagh, Posted on: 23 February 2015 - Categories: Technology Leaders

...more flexible model, enabled in large part by the Digital Marketplace, the place to buy G-Cloud services. Disaggregated approach We embraced the future and reaped the benefits then and I...

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Freeing up unused IP addresses

Posted by: Hadley Beeman, Posted on: 19 February 2015 - Categories: Technology news

...in conversation with colleagues in DWP about their extraordinary number of public-facing IPv4 addresses. These addresses are used to number computers, mobile phones, servers and other devices on the internet...

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Knocking down the Towers of SIAM

Posted by: Alex Holmes, Posted on: 18 February 2015 - Categories: Technology Transformation
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...can create a situation where the customer buys a number of incompatible parts and then asks a SIAM provider to put them together and make it work. Own the solution...

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Changing PSN compliance: latest news

Posted by: Mark Smith, Posted on: 6 February 2015 - Categories: Common technology services

...still currently looking at a full roll out in April. Hang fire! We’ve been contacted by a number of local authorities who are keen to get hold of the draft...

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The big 4 quality assurance mistakes

Posted by: Neil Fletcher, Posted on: 29 January 2015 - Categories: Central Architecture

...time and won’t work, e.g. a multi-supplier programme of work will likely have very different needs to a small single supplier project. (Think centralised online issue management tools, vs Post-Its...

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Learning from each other – the move to open formats

Posted by: Linda Humphries, Posted on: 22 January 2015 - Categories: Open standards

On 14 January we held our first Open Formats Clinic, with around 25 people joining from across government.

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Changing PSN compliance: an update

Posted by: Mark Smith, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Common technology services

...break. We’ve asked a broad mix of organisations to take part in the alpha, including a central government department, a local authority and a small number of service providers. We’ve...

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Making the PSN better

Posted by: James A. Duncan, Posted on: 16 January 2015 - Categories: Common technology services

...the number of consumers on the network. We hope these changes, as well as many other, smaller changes we are making in how we deal with and think about our...

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Proposing the GDS Agile Testing Manifesto

Posted by: Neil Fletcher, Posted on: 8 January 2015 - Categories: Central Architecture

When talking to clients about what agile means, I refer to values outlined in the often-cited Agile Manifesto. The manifesto uses paired statements as a basis for describing the core...

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Open Standards Board: new appointees

Posted by: Magnus Falk, Posted on: 23 December 2014 - Categories: Open standards

Since its inception in April 2013, the Open Standards Board has been busy. It has selected 6 standards profiles: cross-platform character encoding, persistent resolvable identifiers, exchange of contact information, exchange...

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