MongoDB Digital Transformation 2015: Government Digital Service

James StewartDirector of ArchitectureGovernment Digital Service@jystewart

Tatiana SoukiassianJunior DeveloperGovernment Digital Service@binaryberry

We’re from the Government Digital Service

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We started by building GOV.UK

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The best place to find government services and information

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Including things like…

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GDSwww.gov.uk/bank-holidays

GDSwww.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/egypt

GDSwww.gov.uk/calculate-your-maternity-pay

12 million visitors every week

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12 million visitors every week

Home to over 300 departments and organisations

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12 million visitors every week

Home to over 300 departments and organisations

Saving more than £62 million a year

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We’ve also been transforming government services…

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25 of government’s biggest services redesigned to meet the needs of users

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Services like...

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Carer’s Allowance

160,000 claims | 89% user satisfaction

Removed 49% of the questions from the

application process.

Average application time went from 45 mn to

20 mnGDS

LIVE

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Lasting power of attorney

89% user satisfaction

Run by new MOJ digital services team

First service to meet Digital by Default

Service Standard

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LIVE

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To do that we’re working with digital teams in departments all over the country...

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In Swansea DVLA are creating new motoring services

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In Newcastle and London HMRC are using exemplars to transform their architecture

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MOJ are about to start transforming courts

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We’ve made sure everyone can get the data they need to improve services too...

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GDSwww.gov.uk/performance

And we’re building a common way to sign in to services too

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How are we doing all this?

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We take the same approach to everything we work on...

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Open

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Open

Agile

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Open

Agile

Multidisciplinary teams

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Relentlessly focused on user needs

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You can’t fix that stuff in isolation...

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We’re also fixing government’s approach to technology

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New controls, advice and guidance all mean technology meets the needs of civil servants

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We’ve changed how government buys technology and digital services too, making the supply chain much more diverse

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Government’s supplier base used to be here...

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Now it’s here...

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And we’re making sure civil servants have the skills and capabilities they need to do their jobs

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The unit of delivery is the team

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Align around user needs

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Teams need to see people using what they built

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Registering to vote: how a multidisciplinary team made it possible

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Register to vote

45 million users

Individual electoral registration –

fundamental change to democracy

Connects to all local authorities

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LIVE

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Overcoming “Lawyer says no” by showing them the service directly and involving them

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Do the hard work to make it simple.

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Test and learn quickly

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OLD DESIGN NEW DESIGN

Tested on 8 pages of GOV.UK

Each design was presented to half the users

More than 3 times the quantity of feedback

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We started using MongoDB by letting the teams experiment

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Change course as necessary

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It can be hard for leadership

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There are many aspects to making transformation scalable

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Good data management and great technology platforms are vital

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Transformation’s not worth doing for its own sake

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Transformation done right will change every aspect of your operation

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https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/22/good-services-are-verbs-2/

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We need to do the hard work to make it simple

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We need leadership and courage to challenge how our organisations work

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But it’s all so that we can really meet real users’ needs

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Thanks!

James Stewart@jystewartTatiana Soukiassian@binaryberry