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International Women’s Day: 'We can be the change'

International Women’s Day: 'We can be the change'

The DVSA digital team is diverse and inclusive. To mark International Women’s Day 2020, we spoke to some of the female members of the team about their work as women in tech. Tina Churcher, digital delivery lead I would love …

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First impressions of the DVSA software delivery team

Posted by: Ken Roberts, Posted on: 12 December 2017 - Categories: People, Technology
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Ken Roberts, a Digital Delivery Lead in DVSA’s software delivery team, shares his first impressions of the team after joining in September 2017, and explains the challenge of building software delivery capability.

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User research fundamentals: a 5-day course that will change the way you work

Posted by: Grant Chappell, Posted on: 23 November 2017 - Categories: People, User research
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I'm Grant Chappell, a content designer at DVSA, and I recently took the Government Digital Service's 5-day user research fundamentals course. I want to tell you about why this course will change the way you work.

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MOT reminders: the journey so far

Posted by: Neil Barlow, Posted on: 21 November 2017 - Categories: Service design, User research
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Our MOT reminder service has just passed its beta service assessment and we’ve had more than 200,000 users sign up for a reminder already.

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Catching up with DVSA's junior developer apprentices

Posted by: Rob Higgins, Posted on: 25 October 2017 - Categories: People
DVSA's junior developer apprentices

Our junior developer apprentices joined us in January 2017, and they've become a vital part of the team, working on coding, mobile apps and much more.

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Content we’ve been working on at DVSA: August and September 2017

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 29 September 2017 - Categories: Content design
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This is a list of what DVSA’s Content Design team worked on during August and September 2017, and what we plan to do next.

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Making MOT a live service

Posted by: Alex Fiddes, Posted on: 25 July 2017 - Categories: Data, Strategy, Technology
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Our digital MOT testing service was launched in 2015, providing a critical service to over 23,000 MOT garages across the country. It's remained as a beta service since then, and we've been working hard on improvements to make it ready to be a live service.

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DVSA's strategy for 2017 to 2022, and how it was written

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 20 July 2017 - Categories: Content design
DVSA's strategy for 2017 to 2022 being read on a mobile phone

It's important to us that people can easily understand our organisation's purpose, vision and strategy. Being open lets people know what we're doing, why we're doing it and what we're trying to achieve.

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Content we're working on at DVSA: March 2017

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 31 March 2017 - Categories: Content design
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This is a list of what DVSA’s Content Design team worked on during March 2017, and what we plan to do next.

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Meet Alex and Lewis: an apprenticeship success story

Posted by: Alex Le Peltier and Lewis Caddick, Posted on: 10 March 2017 - Categories: People
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Two of the very first apprentices at DVSA - Alex Le Peltier and Lewis Caddick - continue to flourish. Find out about their time at DVSA.

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Content we're working on at DVSA: February 2017

Posted by: John Ploughman, Posted on: 28 February 2017 - Categories: Content design
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This is a list of what DVSA’s Content Design team worked on during February 2017, and what we plan to do next.

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