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Learning lessons the hard way
CDS was a challenging project, in terms of the scale of the work, its technically complexity, and the number of contractor organisations involved. We take a look at what we delivered and what we learned.
Data
“I think you’ve managed something quietly remarkable”
The Customer Data Service allows us to transfer data in near real time between the multiple contractors who deliver the National Careers Service.
We hear from people in a contractor organisations who worked with us on the project.
Scalable, portable and transferable – building a digital service others can use
How we kept the future, and others, in mind when designing the solution to a common problem.
The benefits of sharing data between multiple contractors
The Customer Data Service (CDS) system was launched last November. It allows us to transfer data in near real time between the multiple contractors who deliver the National Careers Service.
Making nine different organisations look like one
The SFA runs the National Careers Service, which offers careers information, advice and guidance to citizens. We work with a number of contractors to supply the service. While this works well, it led to challenges around sharing data.
Lean data
“So we have these really lean business processes and we are going to build a set of services to support them. We will have data supporting Service Based Design but we won’t de facto have lean data. ‘Lean data’ … …
Service Based Design
Service Based Design - a phrase with the words ‘master’ and ‘data’ nowhere to be seen. Ah, so that’s it, build a few services, knock out a few corporate schemas, forget about data (storage is cheap after all) and the savings …
The Data Modelling Trilogy: Agile Data Modelling or Data Modelling in an Agile project
The SFA has recently made the move from waterfall to agile. So how do you adapt data modelling for a Agile project? What one produces and why one produces it doesn’t change, but how it gets produced does. Agile data modelling still …
Put your interfaces in context
You know that old song about you saying ‘pot-at-o’ and me saying ‘pot-ay-to’ when we’re talking about the same thing? We often need to have similar conversations about data when you are designing interfaces. Data mapping is often deceptively easy, but …
The Data Modelling Trilogy: Data Modelling Agility or Anarchism?
As with most ‘new kids on the block’, Agile doesn’t provide the silver bullet solution to all one’s design and development ills. In essence it demands one still does the same sort of things albeit in a different way… oh, …