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Agile Delivery Manager Diary

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 28 January 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management

...month secondment. I am writing this blog to track my journey in my new role, and as a way to ask the wider GOV.UK community to offer help and advice!...

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Moving legacy services to the cloud

Posted by: Alan Hazell, Posted on: 27 January 2015 - Categories: Technology

...way we buy ICT services, leveraging commodity services and providing more opportunities for us to work with SMEs. As part of the Agency’s apprenticeship exemplar project, and also as a...

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How does Agile stop people from making things up?

Posted by: Julie Hendry, Posted on: 23 January 2015 - Categories: Agile

...done." Trust means we often support people trying things they haven't tried before. To deliver stuff or solve problems or innovate or be better or go faster. Agile doesn't stop...

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Launch of our minimal viable service for traineeships

Posted by: Angela Scale, Posted on: 21 January 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Traineeships
Old and new traineeship search

...or job. When traineeships launched, candidates had to use the apprenticeship vacancies site to search and apply for them. Adding traineeships to the apprenticeship vacancies site wasn’t based on user...

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Find an Apprenticeship exemplar in public beta

Posted by: Tim Clayton, Posted on: 20 January 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar

...exemplar is at the vanguard of a new generation of digital services. I’m very proud of it, and the KPIs (Key Performance Indicators) we have achieved in the first few...

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Why we start with a minimal viable service – it’s not the end game!

Posted by: Angela Scale, Posted on: 14 January 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Change delivery, User research
The search facility on our previous site, and on the new site - redeveloped based on user feedback and need

...providers to post apprenticeships on behalf of employers was inflexible. In addition the ways we delivered improvements to these services was not cost effective, and was based on policy requirements,...

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Citizen digital service - discovery to alpha

Posted by: Samantha Bestwick, Posted on: 12 January 2015 - Categories: Citizen digital service

...the data suggests a firm link between online registration and content consumption for the existing service; registered repeat visits during the last quarter comprised less than 5% of total visits,...

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