Career Strategies for Practicing Business Analysts

August 15, 2025

Authored by:
Jamie Toyne

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In this taster session well cover:

What is ‘the GDS model’? How does Spend Control, the Technology Code of Practice, the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework, the Service Standard, and the Service Manual fit together?

How do you make Digital Spend work for you (not the other way around)? If you’re clear on the intent behind it, how do you improve it for your context without ever ‘lowering the bar’?

How does this work for large programmes, policy development, and enterprise technology? Hard won lessons on making this work outside ‘pure’ digital conditions.

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