Governance guidance
This site documents the governance standards and guidance that we expect teams working across the public sector to follow when building digital services.
It complements the Service Manual and is inspired by the GDS Way and the Ministry of Justice Technical Guidance
It started out as a prototype, developed at the first OneTeamGov Bureaucracy Hack in July 2019.
Principles
Standards
Guides
Governance as a Platform
Helpcards
Adding new guidance
Create a new Markdown file in the Governance guidance repo that follows this pattern, add a link to it from this page, and make a pull request:
---
category: The broader area this fits into
expires: yyyy-mm-dd (6 months from now)
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# Thing you're writing about
Introduction of a couple of paragraphs to explain why the thing you're
writing about is important. The [title should probably be a verb, not a
noun][good-services-are-verbs] (e.g. “Storing source code”, not “Code
repositories”).
[good-services-are-verbs]: https://designnotes.blog.gov.uk/2015/06/22/good-services-are-verbs-2/
## User needs
Why do we do this thing? Who is it helping?
## Principles
What broad approaches do we follow when we do this thing?
## Tools
What specific bits of software (commercial or open source) do
we use to help us do this thing?
The service manual has some useful information on learning about and writing user needs.