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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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Supply chain transformation - procurement lessons learnt

Posted by: Russell Davis, Posted on: 16 February 2015 - Categories: Change delivery, Supply chain, Technology

...to make G-Cloud work for us. We’ve since developed our own G-cloud “made easy” manual and trained our staff on the new ways of working and new procurement best practice....

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A procurement lead: the missing piece of your agile project team

Posted by: Chris Thompson, Posted on: 13 February 2015 - Categories: Agile, Projects, Solution Design and Innovation, Supply chain
The agile process vs the procurement process

...I was involved in preparing two very large tenders and in both cases I ended up contracting with both a different company and software set than I had originally expected...

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What must you have to enter Alpha?

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 11 February 2015 - Categories: Agile

I’m a Delivery Manager at the Skills Funding Agency. This is a new role for me and you can read some of my other blog posts about my experience so...

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The Data Modelling Trilogy: Semantic Mayhem

Posted by: Chris Langman, Posted on: 9 February 2015 - Categories: Agile, Data

...are used to increase the chances of pinging the perfect solution into production, and to help ensure informed design decisions are made. The word ‘informed’ in this context really means...

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Delivery Manager Diary - moving through discovery

Posted by: Piers Dunstall, Posted on: 4 February 2015 - Categories: Agile, Delivery Management
Whiteboard

...also plan to run Trello boards for the alpha and beta phases of the project to track development progress. My question for you is: are we missing anything? Our team...

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The challenge of untangling project siloes

Posted by: Chris Thompson, Posted on: 3 February 2015 - Categories: Projects, Solution Design and Innovation, Technology
Staff working there way round the discussion boards/topics at the giant retro

...promoting the use of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). This approach champions the building of components that are designed to be integrated with. These new ‘services’ are based around open-standards, are technology...

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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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