Government Digital Services: Proof the Pigs Can Indeed Fly!

A retrospective of my time in GDS on the ERTP project.

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1. Government Digital Service Putting the public first in delivering digital public services proof
2. The Government Digital Service (GDS) must have the agility of a start-up to drive through change across Whitehall “ ” - Mike Bracken, Director GDS
3. Government Digital Service Electoral Registration Transformation Programme Single Government Domain Electronic Licence Management Systems Replacement Programme Design Principles Lasting Power of Attorney Student Loans Vehicle Tax SMEs
4. Ruby (Sinatra & Rails) Application Code Scala (Scalatra) Routing Code MongoDB, MySQL Persistence Typical GDS Colophon (Application)
5. Typical GDS Colophon (Support) EC2, SES, S3, Jetty, Nginx, Apache, Jenkins, Varnish, Puppet Infrastructure Code Clojure, Node.js, PHP Dashboards and Information Radiators Campfire, Google Apps, Pivotal Tracker, Index Cards Project Management and Collaboration Tools
6. KEEP CALM AND CARRY ON the
7. The Story Game (Project & People) Weekly show and tells Agile Retrospectives Product Owner Alpha Project Background The Team Mat Wall Preview Environment Floor Meetings
8. The Story Game (Technology & Architecture) Scalatra Play 2.0 “Real” Service Oriented Architecture Puppet MongoDB The Cloud aka Amazon
9. The Story Game (Tools & Techniques) Pivotal Tracker Campfire Google Apps Test Driven Development Continuous Deployment Jenkins Github PostcodeAnywhere
10. pics or it didnt happen