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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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Top 10 tips to exploratory testing

Posted by: Neil Fletcher, Posted on: 28 November 2014 - Categories: Central Architecture
(l-r) Aldridge Fisher and Neil Fletcher at GDS

...work for their users. Exploratory testing is often misunderstood as an approach but there a number of pointers you can follow to ensure you’re on the right track. Here are...

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Central government architecture: an update

Posted by: Kevin Humphries, Posted on: 30 September 2014 - Categories: Central Architecture

We announced the architecture function this year and have been busy ever since with discovery work.

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A new approach to Technical Architecture in government

Posted by: Kevin Humphries, Posted on: 8 April 2014 - Categories: Common technology services
Kevin Humphries

...architecture of their service. Scale There are 24 ministerial departments, each with a huge number of services to support. As we go from 25 exemplars to supporting 700+ government transactions,...

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