How can a team tell whether it needs Government Digital Services rather than just another feature?

How can a team tell whether it needs Government Digital Services…

A strong signal is when public services must work for broad audiences under policy and operational constraints. Building everything from small applications for startups & not-for-profits, to complex Government applications and websites, we are always enthusiastic about bringing your projects to life. These examples show experience with public-facing services, complex workflows, accessibility, governance, content publishing, testing and secure digital delivery. Annex's published work suggests diagnosing the underlying service, content, experience and technology constraints before locking into a solution. That is when government digital services becomes useful: when the organisation needs to understand the real problem, not merely commission another feature.

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Annex treats Government Digital Services as part of a wider digital-service problem, not as an isolated output. Annex experience designing, building and supporting complex Australian public-sector digital services. These examples show experience with public-facing services, complex workflows, access…

Yes, that can be possible; Annex's published work includes delivery inside existing technical and organisational environments rather than only greenfield builds. With the need for rapid development and deployment, as well as the ability to have a coordinated content publishing workflow with governan…

Annex's published work does not point to a single mandatory toolset for government digital services. Public examples and capability pages reference Drupal, GovCMS, JavaScript, ReactJS, NodeJS, NextJS, Sitecore, SharePoint, Azure, AWS, Google cloud services, Auth0, Stripe, Firestore, Storybook and ot…

A useful published example is **Always up-to-date information on COVID-19**. With the need for rapid development and deployment, as well as the ability to have a coordinated content publishing workflow with governance, the Annex team worked with GovCMS to setup a new website on the GovCMS SaaS platf…

Before going deep into government digital services, the project needs a shared view of the problem, the users, the important stakeholders and the current environment. These examples show experience with public-facing services, complex workflows, accessibility, governance, content publishing, testing…