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Why in a time when change is constant is it so important to create stability for our users?

Agile cycle. Requirements, design, develop, test, deploy, review

Why in a time when change is constant is it so important to create stability for our users?

Making accurate payments to providers and employers is a key aim of the Apprenticeship Service and a key user need to address. Gary Tucker, Deputy Director at the Apprenticeship Service, talks about how the Service has created very accurate payments and built a capability to ensure apprentices are given the opportunities they deserve.

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The Data Modelling Trilogy: Data Modelling Agility or Anarchism?

Posted by: Chris Langman, Posted on: 27 March 2015 - Categories: Data

...(deliberately misspelt) which tells them that garbage-in means garbage-out. Even the best BI tools won’t solve fundamental data issues (although they will deliver the incorrect information in a far more...

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Ready for Live: Find an Apprenticeship

Posted by: Gary Tucker, Posted on: 25 March 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service

...light to go fully live with the Service. GDS have made a short film about it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfbunTyrkUU A transcript of the video is available. Achievements so far There have been...

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The transformation of testing at the SFA

Posted by: Mark Winspear, Posted on: 24 March 2015 - Categories: Agile, Testing

As a group of testers, over the past year or so we have been assessing, discussing, researching, learning and refining how we transition from a traditional waterfall approach, to providing an agile service. As with most organisations, we used to …

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Am I a CAT? (Certified Agile Tester)

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 19 March 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management

...feel that examinations like this seem a little backwards nowadays, not least because many of us type faster than we can write! I also felt an Agile course should be...

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Playing together, nicely.

Posted by: Tim Marlow, Posted on: 18 March 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management, Projects, Solution Design and Innovation

...Product Owners need to work across projects to discharge the total vision. We’re still working this through If you are skipping straight to this section to find a definitive answer...

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Lessons from the sharp end: approaching live with Find an apprenticeship

Posted by: Gary Tucker, Posted on: 9 March 2015 - Categories: Apprenticeships exemplar, Employer Digital Service

Our Find an apprenticeship service has been helping people search and apply for apprenticeships easily online since December 2014. I'm the Digitals Service Manager for Find an apprenticeship. As it's...

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A retrospective, retrospective - what should be covered?

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 4 March 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management, Projects

...retrospective template and shared it with the team via the team site. I have previously used a similar approach to this known as Glad - Mad - Sad and the...

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Can an Agile tool have too many features?

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 26 February 2015 - Categories: Agile

...help, people new to the processes. The tool I favoured was from a website called Agile Velocity. I decided to simplify this tool to use three tabs: A data tab...

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Risk management for Agile programmes

Posted by: Chris Bexon, Posted on: 21 February 2015 - Categories: Projects

...in cost Medium: moderate delay, reduction of quality, or increase in cost High: major delay, reduction of quality, or increase in cost Very high: catastrophic delay, reduction of quality, or...

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How do you divert a waterfall..?

Posted by: Simon Swinburne, Posted on: 20 February 2015 - Categories: Agile, Apprenticeships exemplar, Solution Design and Innovation

...been insightful too. Feedback from the beta service has directly impacted on feature development. This is a significant change to the way we deliver our services. Do you have to...

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