The Apprenticeship Service Engagement team has just launched a new webinar programme for autumn 2019. Helen Gorner, ESFA’s Head of Service Engagement, talks about the programme and how you can get involved.
Building digital capability in the public sector is not that easy. Gary Tucker, Head of digital for the apprenticeship service, shares 5 strategies for meeting this challenge
Following on from my last blog and some of the feedback I received, I wanted to share the current delivery roadmap for the apprenticeship service with you. This starts to outline the most significant developments we are currently planning to …
Last week I attended the Scrum Alliance's Certified Scrum Master course and passed. It was a useful couple of days. I've been practising Scrum and Agile processes for a while now, so not everything on the course was new to me, but …
My project is coming to an end and we are having to extend a further couple of sprints to meet the MVP (minimum viable product).
Back in January, I started a secondment as a Delivery Manager. Here’s a little note to update you all on my progress. I know I haven’t blogged in little while, there was a period of purdah and some personal holiday …
Last week I attended a Certified Agile Tester (CAT) course. Testing is not an area I'm too involved in, but it gave me a lot of extra detail on Agile ways of working and firmed up my current knowledge. The course …
What’s the common factor between ITIL, Agile, MSP, TOGAF and the GDS framework? The answer is that each of them assumes that their person leads the conversation between the business and the work being done. The architect is ‘god’ in …
As part of continuous improvement within Agile teams, retrospectives are held at the end of each sprint. In these meetings we get a chance to discuss what went well and badly, and agree some actions needed to improve things. I …
At this early stage of the project, there are some days I feel I make little progress in terms of documentation, but a lot of progress in terms of getting people introduced and able to work together, which is one of the main principles of Agile.