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Introducing our architecture approach and principles

Posted by: James Stewart, Posted on: 5 July 2016 - Categories: Central Architecture

James Stewart shares the thinking behind the technical architecture team's working principles and the need to keep developing "services so good people prefer to use them".

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Network principles for government

Posted by: Government Technology Team, Posted on: 20 July 2015 - Categories: Technology news

In the work we do with network designers and end users across government the same issues keep cropping up.

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Making your case for quality assurance

Posted by: Neil Fletcher, Posted on: 16 March 2015 - Categories: Central Architecture

People often question the value of quality assurance.

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Guest post: testing tools principles

Posted by: Blaine Webb, Posted on: 13 March 2015 - Categories: Central Architecture

...testing tools are the most effective. Open tools also avoid vendor lock-in and are cheaper than proprietary alternatives. The Government IT Strategy and Technology Code of Practice [https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/making-software/open-source.html] says open...

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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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