Fiji! What a performance 👏🏽 Watched the England warm up win live and taking Wales to the wire just now 🤩 That is some real rugby 🏉 #rugbyworldcup2023
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Called HMRC because their web service kept falling over.
Advice was to keep trying with the web service because there's high demand. There's no alternative to the web service.
I guess the GDS service design accessibility principles have gone out the window.
#ServiceDesign #Gov
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Using HMRC web services is like buying tickets for @glastonbury. Might have to automate this task rather than waste my time manually re-attempting.
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Rand retweeted
Navy SEALs are some of the world's most elite warriors.
What's their secret weapon?
Breath control.
Here's how they train it (and how you can master it too):
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ChatGPT casually dropped an APP STORE 🤯
It can now:
- browse the web (RIP Bing waitlist, cutoff)
- write and run Python (RIP replit?)
- access org info (RIP docsearch startups)
- add third party plugins from OpenTable, Wolfram, Instacart, Zapier, etc)
- developer SDK in preview
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Re. "non-technical" Scrum Masters or coaches. We programmers, to be effective, need to understand the domain we're working in. Why does anybody think they can be an effective SM/coach without understanding the domain they're working in: software development? Learn to code.
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This instinctively makes sense - even as something just to support people who are on the waiting list for face to face or treatment.
bbc.co.uk/news/health-647998…
There's loads I've seen and worked on across health and central government services. I'm pretty confident someone in my network can give some examples too.
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Have any UK Gov departments (central, local, ALB, etc) openly published their internal change management processes/service deployment pipelines?
I want to see how aligned they might be across departments, given their role in whether or not new services/improvements are made.
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