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A new way of working: single technical direction  

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A new way of working: single technical direction  

To improve PDS focus on delivery and its ability to effectively prioritise work on a new website for Parliament, our development team is moving to a new way of working.

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Chairs, chairs, chairs

Carrie Kleiner, 5 January 2017 — Be where people are, Open, Social Media

Screen shot for December social media report showing four images of chairs and one of chirstmas tree - showing the most popular images from the UK Parliament Instagram feed in December 2016

Turns out you lot really like chairs ...

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Could this be the most photographed Christmas tree in the world ...

Matt Instone, 3 January 2017 — Continuous iteration, Open, Social Media

Parliament Christmas tree

A look at our #ParliamenTree campaign to crowdsource Christmas tree photos

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Delivering the unexpected

Rob Greig, 20 December 2016 — Confidence, Digital strategy, Experts in what we do, Focus on core work

A recent show and tell at PDS

It’s been nearly 20 months since the Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) sprang to life. By rolling together the House of Commons Web and Intranet Service (WIS) and Parliamentary ICT we created PDS. And we didn’t exactly do what people expected.

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Three amigos at the DWP Digital Academy

Alan Bedford, 14 December 2016 — Collaboration culture, Digital strategy, Open, Unity without uniformity

The three amigos (Alan, Caroline and Alias)

Three of our business analysts went to the DWP Digital Academy to find out more about the work of business analysts in a digital environment.

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My first six weeks in Parliament

Elisabeth Ward, 12 December 2016 — Content design, Cultural values, Experts in what we do, Women in digital

Elisabeth at her desk working away

Elisabeth Ward recently joined the content team at PDS and she blogs about coming from a small agency to working in Parliament, what it's like to work here and how she's spent her first six weeks.

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Building culture ... one badge at a time

Carrie Kleiner, 6 December 2016 — Community, Content design, Cultural values, Experts in what we do

Explicit content badge

Culture - it's a tough one. You'll hear all sorts of companies and brands talking about their working culture - but it's not something that you can just implement. In fact, sometimes the more you try, the less successful you'll be.

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Fortnight notes: Data and Search team 05/12/16

Dan Barrett, 5 December 2016 — Data and search

This is the Data & Search team's eighth set of fortnight notes. The idea is to keep an ongoing, public record of what we're doing. We'll iterate the notes with a view to making them better over time.

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What we learned from the GDS User Research team

Steve Bromley, 5 December 2016 — Collaboration culture, Community, Curiosity, Start with user needs, User research

GDS analysis boards

Our user research team spent a day with GDS observing how they run their user research sessions. It was an interesting opportunity to see the processes and methods used by an established research team and we learned a lot that could help the development of our own team.

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PDS at Silicon Milkroundabout. We’ll definitely be back 

Julie Byrne, 1 December 2016 — Collaboration culture, Community, Digital strategy, Recruitment, Unity without uniformity

PDS stand and staff

Julie Byrne blogs about PDS attending the latest Silicon Milkroundabout and how we brought our Digital Principles to life at the event.

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Biographical information and Members

Dana Demin, 29 November 2016 — Continuous iteration, Start with user needs, User research

Through user research, we found out that the public want to understand what kind of person is representing them as an MP or a Lord. Parliament holds a lot of this information but we wanted to understand what specific information people want to know about their representatives.

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