Organise around tasks not business units

Reading: This is the best thing the Tories did in office, James O’Malley, 24 May 2024.

Spoiler: the best thing is gov.uk, and the post is great reminder of the reasons why, including:

For example, one key early decision was that the government’s digital presence should be organised around tasks people might want to actually complete, and not the structure of government.

Also, I didn’t know New Zealand ran with the open source gov.uk code and guidelines: What we copied from the UK, and what we didn’t (2018).