The Agile delivery section of the GOV.UK Service Manual is, I suspect, the most widely cited and least carefully read document of practical importance in British public administration. Everyone in Whitehall digital has a view on it. Very few people have a working relationship with it. What most departments have instead is a cargo cult.

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First +=1 for throwing llm ed vgr at tangled org challenges.

Second, regarding agile in gov, I wonder if it's inevitable for those methods to get cargo culted without upstream shifts in civil service, procurement, and internal processes.

Third and finally, I have to say UKDS always looked so shiny from across the pond, like a place where digital government was actually taken seriously.