Tag: Government of the United Kingdom

• Universal Credit: government closer to recognising failure?

  Universal Credit – the amalgamation of various welfare payments into one unified entitlement which will vary in “real time” as claimants’ circumstances change – is at the very heart of the British government‘s plans to reform the welfare state. The idea is that the welfare system will “make work pay”. Once that meant it would […]

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  Adrian McMenamin

  May 25, 2013

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  agile software development, Department for Work and Pensions, Government of the United Kingdom, Iain Duncan Smith, Major Projects Authority, Project management, Universal Credit

• Universal Credit: heading for a pile up?

  If the UK government’s Universal Credit project fails it won’t be an ordinary car crash, but a motorway pile up – battering the poor as lazy and feckless has become something of a political sport in Britain in recent months, but failing to pay people the money they need to live will likely change the […]

  Adrian McMenamin

  December 23, 2012

  Uncategorized

  agile development, agile methods, Government of the United Kingdom, Software development, Universal Credit, Welfare reform