Implementing Service Mesh on stand-alone architectures (non-Microservices)
published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Problem The government programme started with no security requirements for encryption information in transit (TLS). After a review, a new requirement came to encrypt all in-flight communications using TLS. Requirement Use Hashicorp Vault as central CA Implement encryption in transit for all in-flight communications Solution The solution was designed and implemented using the service mesh […]
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Keeping viruses out of the shared file system during file transfer
published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Problem The existing file transfer solution does not process and perform Anti-Virus validation on a self-isolated environment per file. So any file opened potentially can contain a virus and infect the whole server and other files within the server. The current file transfer solution requires the provision of servers utilising a large amount of resources […]
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Securing your Hashicorp-Vault secrets avoiding storing secrets as unencrypted environment variables or files on the file system
published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Problem Many applications need to use secrets (username, passwords, tokens, …) to connect with other services like databases or protected services. The classical way to provide secrets to an application is using environment variables, configuration files, JVM parameters or command line parameters, meaning if an attacker can get into the machine they will be able […]
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Reducing infrastructure costs and improving performance in Systems Integration; replacing ESB with Camel Microservices
published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Problem The SOA solution implemented using WSO2 APIM and WSO2 EI, was following old guidelines and originally designed to live within a secure network. There were a number of issues to resolve: The solution was migrated to the cloud without any security uplift. This SOA solution was implemented on top of VMs and the product […]
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Enabling multi-Cloud security utilising Hashicorp-Vault
published on Wednesday, August 5th, 2020
Problem A government client is required to validate every incoming request from external systems to prevent attacks. The existing system: Only provided token validation for incoming requests. Did not support attack detection or encryption in transit for legacy internal applications. Allowed incorrect requests to pass through the system because it does not validate incoming JSON/SOAP/XMLpayloads. […]
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Middleware Developer
published on Wednesday, October 16th, 2019
Overview We are looking for a Middleware Developer with experience in as many of the following as possible: SOA Architecture Exposing Back-end Services to Front-End technologies via REST/SOAP APIs Java 8 MicroServices Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery XSD/JSON Schema/Swagger Amazon Web Services Jenkins/Maven Remuneration We have a generous package including: OTE: Year 1: £67k Year 2: £82k […]
Continue reading →Case Study: HMRC Messaging Delivery Group Digital Transformation
published on Thursday, September 5th, 2019
HMRC required a Digital Transformation team to provide integration services for new HMRC Digital Services. Our consultants: Worked in conjunction with in-house & third-party suppliers to collaboratively create Brexit-critical Digital Services; leveraging existing legacy systems and new bespoke & COTS applications; for the Customs domain. Established integrations with European Union (EU) systems: facilitating the continued […]
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Case Study: HMRC Messaging Delivery Group Agile Adoption
published on Monday, August 12th, 2019
HMRC required a new agile team to provide integration services for new HMRC Digital Services. Our consultants: Created a multi-disciplinary Scrum Team comprising: a Scrum Master, a Technical Business Analyst (acting as pseudo-Product Owner), a Lead Developer, two Senior Developers and an Automated Tester. Created an Agile Backlog (leveraging JIRA) in conjunction with the wider […]
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Digital Transformation Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: Digital Transformation Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Systems Integration Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: Systems Integration Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Cloud Migrations Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: Cloud Migrations Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Agile Adoption Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: Agile Adoption Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: £200 Facilitator: Terry
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IR35 Compliance Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: IR35 Compliance Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: £50 Facilitator: Terry
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Simplifying Recruitment Workshop – Q3 2019
published on Thursday, April 4th, 2019
Contents: Simplifying Recruitment Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Q3 2019 Cost: free Facilitator: Terry
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Simplifying Recruitment Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Contents: Simplifying Recruitment Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 25 June 1300 to 1500 Cost: free Facilitator: Terry
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IR35 Compliance Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Contents: IR35 Compliance Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 25 June 1000 to 1200 Attendees: 2 confirmed (16 maximum) Cost: £50 Facilitator: Terry
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Agile Adoption Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 18 June 1000 to 1200 Attendees: 11 confirmed (16 maximum) Cost: £200 Facilitator: Terry
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Cloud Migrations Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Contents: Cloud Migrations Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 11 June 1430 to 1630 Attendees: 1 confirmed (16 maximum) Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Systems Integration Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Contents: Systems Integration Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 11 June 1130 to 1330 Attendees: 3 confirmed (16 maximum) Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Digital Transformation Workshop – Q2 2019
published on Monday, April 1st, 2019
Contents: Digital Transformation Workshop Venue: The Hive Enterprise Centre, Victoria Avenue, Southend-on-Sea, SS2 6EX Date: Tuesday 11 June 0900 to 1100 Attendees: 6 confirmed (16 maximum) Cost: £200 * Facilitator: Terry * this is part of our 3 for 2 offer
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Synchronise New Digital Service with Mainframe Legacy System
published on Friday, March 8th, 2019
Our consultants engaged at HMRC to: Design a system to provide two-way synchronisation of Tariff, Quota and Payment data between a new Digital Service being built on a ESB/MicroService-architecture and an existing legacy mainframe system. Setup a CI/CD process to manage the integration, testing & deployment of new code. Provide file movement and manipulation, as […]
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Experience of working for a Government department
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
At HMRC, we utilise Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/Lean-techniques to deliver from simple changes to a workflow to enterprise-wide-programmes. Our Scrum-Teams apply agile-best-practises; including: •TDD •Continuous-build/integration •Automated-testing (functional/non-functional) •Continuous-deployment •Processes/procedures built-up with extensive experience in Digital-Transformation-Programmes. Scaling resource levels to meet HMRC’s needs: •25/50/100+ •Seamlessly-integrating new-joiners. Engagement-key-points: •15 agile-teams •14 concurrent-Programmes/Release-Trains/Projects •100+ consultants working collaboratively with each-other/external-teams(client/third-party suppliers of […]
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Demonstrable experience and track record of providing cloud-based hosting and support services for digital products
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
HMRC required the Customs-Declaration-Service(CDS)-development/delivery-mechanism migrating from Fujitsu-Private-Cloud to AWS. Our consultants developed an implementation-plan, conducted Proof-Of-Concepts(POC), then migrated the CDS-CI/CD-processes, automated-testing/mocking-framework, environments and existing Integration-Services to AWS. We added RedHat/WSO2 upgrades and completed everything in four-weeks; without any disruption to CDS-delivery-schedule. We subsequently added features including: S3, RDS, EC2, EBS, clustering, Availability-Zones and Virtual-Private-Clouds; providing […]
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Experience of having delivered data management frameworks, including practical strategies and policies, for the management of data – its use and quality
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Ford required a new data-management-framework to allow a store-once/use-multiple-times-policy for technical information across all of Ford’s vehicle-models. Our consultant managed the development/support of an XML-based system: •New data-types (Tags) managed through Global-Governance-process. •Tag/Attribute/Element structure allows feature-rich for consuming-systems. •Content separate to presentation to flexibly-feed disparate-systems. •Elements/Attributes allow regionalised-versions. •Consistent data-entry enforced through defined fields/XML-schemas. •Data-model […]
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Have experience in delivering a management information dashboard service to be used by multiple organisations or business units
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Our consultants engaged at Ford to: •Design/Develop a Data-Warehouse for all country teams across EMEA & APAC. •Ensure the integrity of the data from the mainframe/database systems. •Extract/Transform/Load data using DataStage into a TeraData database. •Display the management information on a dashboard using WebFocus. In addition, our consultants: •Controlled the update of data via Autosys. […]
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Worked on a project with multiple (client) partners
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Our consultants were instrumental in HMRC’s discovery & Alpha on the Brexit-Critical Border-Systems-Programme. We worked closely with 8 separate business-partner teams to identify overlapping functional areas; consolidating 8 separate Backlogs & reducing Features by 23%. This led to a consolidated infrastructure requirement; reducing licensing by 30%, Development by 20% & support/maintenance by 12%. We worked […]
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Share their work freely and openly with the partner organisations and the wider community
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Our consultants established a new Integration-development centre at HMRC with a remit for providing reusable services for other project development teams. We established a library of integration patterns with reference implementations; ensuring appropriate documentation was in place for the wider community; including HMRC in-house teams & other suppliers. The team created a Test-Framework for functional/non-functional […]
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Demonstrate experience designing services for a wide range of digital skills and confidence
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Ford’s Content-Management-System was being used inefficiently by non-technical-users. Our consultant evaluated-the-system/its use; concluding: •User-Groups spread globally/using system in different-ways •High-turnover of users-knowledge not retained •Lack-of-understanding leading to incorrect reporting-of-defects/wasting IT-team’s time. Our consultant improved effectiveness by: •Fortnightly review-sessions for heavily-used-features – added to training knowledge-base. •Video-Product-Demos for new-development; ensuring clear-instructions available. •Trained key-users across regions […]
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Demonstrate a track-record of user-centred design and Agile approaches
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Barclays had multiple-business-requirements for User-centric web-design in the Personal-Finance-division; including: cross-sale-advertising, agreement-in-principle for mortgages, personal-loan-applications, corporate/social-responsibility-content, media/public-relations-repository We provided analysis/prototype-design/development within the Interactive-Design-Centre helping the business to visualise the end-state-solution. We provided leadership/management in the Centre leading an agile-team of six prototype-designers/developers; adopting an iterative/Continuous-Integration/Delivery Agile-approach. We used a full user-centred web-design process comprising: working […]
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Have experience of working to the GDS service design manual
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
Our consultants engaged at HMRC to: •Establish a new Development-Centre that adhered to the principles of the Technology-Code-of-Practice. •Set-up a Fujitsu-Private-Cloud-based, open-source(WSO2)/open-standards(Java), Continuous-Integration/Delivery-system that embedded/enforced the Digital-Service-Standards. •Utilised a defense-in-depth security-policy, ensuring data remained private but was available for multi-system reuse; reducing Total-Cost-of-Ownership and meeting the security requirements of HMRC & OGD’s (including DEFRA, DIT […]
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Provide a multi-disciplinary team, including user research, service design, and delivery management
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
At HMRC we provide a multi-disciplinary-Agile-teams (User-Research/Analysis/Service-Design/Development/Delivery/Support/Maintenance) working on 14 concurrent-Programmes/Release-Trains/Projects and providing 80+ Services. We utilise Scrum/Kanban/SAFe/Lean-techniques to deliver from simple changes to a workflow to enterprise-wide-programmes; embedding user-research/feedback throughout service design & delivery. Our Scrum-Teams apply agile-best-practises; including: •TDD •Continuous-build/integration •Automated-testing (functional/non-functional) •Continuous-deployment •Processes/procedures built-up with extensive experience in Digital-Transformation-Programmes. We work collaboratively […]
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Have experience working with a range of xAAS products / providers
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
HMRC required a new development-centre that embraced an xAAS-approach. Our consultants leveraged the existing IaaS Fujitsu-Private-Cloud and Cap-Gemini’s Integration/Deployment platform (PaaS) for deploying/hosting Digital-Services. Once HMRC had developed an in-house AWS-Cloud-platform (PaaS) we migrated all existing services, service-development/testing/deployment & environments across in four-weeks. We then extended the in-house PaaS to take advantages of AWS’s other […]
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Have experience successfully executing legacy system / cloud migration projects
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
HMRC-MDG required the CDS-development/delivery-mechanism migrating from Fujitsu-Private-Cloud to AWS. Our consultants developed an implementation-plan, conducted Proof-Of-Concepts(POC), then migrated the CDS-CI/CD-processes, automated-testing & mocking-framework, environments and existing Integration-Services to AWS. We added RedHat/WSO2 upgrades and completed everything in four-weeks; without any disruption to CDS-delivery-schedule. We subsequently added features including: clustering, Availability-Zones and Virtual-Private-Clouds; providing value-for-money/resilient-infrastructure. We […]
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Have experience working to principles described in the Technology Code of Practice
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
HMRC-MDG required a new Development-Centre that adhered to the principles of the Technology-Code-of-Practice. Our consultants setup a Fujitsu-Private-Cloud-based, open-source(WSO2)/open-standards(Java), Continuous-Integration/Delivery-system that embedded/enforced the Digital-Service-Standards. The system utilised a defense-in-depth security-policy, ensuring data remained private but was available for multi-system reuse; reducing Total-Cost-of-Ownership. The SOA-type Middleware/MicroServices-system integrated legacy/COTS-systems; providing accessible Digital-Services based on User-Needs. The migration […]
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Have experience advising on design of modern system architectures
published on Thursday, March 7th, 2019
HMRC required European-Union data in legacy-systems. Our consultants designed, developed, deployed & supported a Cloud-agnostic, Open-Source, MicroServices-architecture solution delivering Distributed Business Processes. We embraced-Containerisation through Docker & Kubernetes; giving vertical-scalability, self-healing, resilience & high-availability. We utilised Vault for Secrets-Management, created an automated-Continuous-Integration/Deployment-system using Jenkins, Maven, Artifactory, GitLab, SonarQube, SOAPUI & JMeter. We created a Guaranteed-Delivery […]
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PSIT Completes Alpha for IR35 Compliance
published on Friday, February 8th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions has completed Discovery and Alpha for the consultancy IR35 Compliance; and have now started the Beta-phase.We conducted quantitative & qualitative user-research as part of the Discovery & Alpha for this start-up Consultancy’s first Digital Service.We established high-level-requirements & user-personas with online-questioning. We drilled-down into the detail of various ‘as-is’ models across […]
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Degree Apprenticeship: Trainee IT Professional
published on Tuesday, February 5th, 2019
Overview We are looking for a Graduate Apprentice to train as an IT Professional. The course comprises: A relevant degree at an agreed Further Education establishment On The Job training: Year 1: Experience: IT Recruitment User Research Knowledge: Recruitment User Research Scrum Master (including certification) Year 2: Experience: Scrum Master Knowledge: Business Analysis Product Owner (including […]
Continue reading →Business Analyst
published on Thursday, January 17th, 2019
Overview We are looking for a Business Analyst with experience in: User Research User Interface Design Front-end Web Development Digital Service Design Technical Business Analysis Remuneration We have a generous package including: OTE: Year 1: £67k Year 2: £82k Year 3: £85k 10% company pension contribution. Annual bonus for client bookings above Target. 30 days paid annual leave. Gym […]
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PSIT Commences Discovery on Performance of Database-Driven Website
published on Wednesday, January 16th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions is working with their client to discover ways to improve performance for database calls on their website. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will document the user needs/journeys for existing consumers of the website and establish options to explore through Proof Of Concepts during Alpha.
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PSIT Commences Discovery on a Consultancy Pitch, Sales & Customer Engagement Service
published on Tuesday, January 15th, 2019
PSIT have commenced Discovery on a pitch, sales and customer engagement service for a consulting organisation. PSIT will be conducting user research for in-house staff, affiliate companies and clients of the proposed service. We will be looking at what constitutes a Minimum Viable Product from multiple views: In-house staff – what information needs to be […]
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PSIT Commences Discovery on Forum Notification Service
published on Monday, January 14th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions has started Discovery on a Forum Notification Service. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will be working with the client, and their customers, to establish the user needs for notifying users of changes in forums. We will discover any constraints of the existing system and establish a way forward for the Alpha.
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PSIT Commence Discovery on Information Management System
published on Friday, January 11th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions have commenced Discovery on a system to manage data & files, establish appropriate associations and ensure information is available to appropriate users. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will work with the client’s users to establish their needs and then agree an agile backlog for Alpha; prioritised according to business value.
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PSIT Commence Discovery for Object Model Evaluation
published on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions have commenced discovery on a data consolidation evaluation for a Recruitment Consultancy. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will be conducting user research with a view to establishing business needs and establishing whether a unified object model will simplify the client’s IT systems.
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PSIT Commence Discovery for Recruitment Service
published on Wednesday, January 9th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions have commenced Discovery on a new service to facilitate recruitment activities for a federation of recruiters. The goals of the Discovery are to validate existing assumptions regarding the need for the service and to establish the user stories required to move to an Alpha project that would build a Minimum Viable Product. The […]
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PSIT Commences Discovery on New Client Engagement Service
published on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions has begun Discovery on a New Client Engagement Service for a new consultancy. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will be working with the client to understand the needs of stakeholders via user research and then establishing a prioritised backlog for entry into an Alpha phase.
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PSIT Commence Discovery for News Service
published on Tuesday, January 8th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions have engaged to conduct a Discovery for a news gathering and re-publication service. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will be working in collaboration with the client to understand the existing service, establish existing and desired user needs and then creating a prioritised backlog of user stories for Alpha.
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PSIT Commence Discovery for IT Systems Consolidation
published on Friday, January 4th, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions has commenced the Discovery for an Enterprise Business Centre that would like to consolidate IT systems: simplifying their IT Infrastructure and reducing costs. Perfectly Simple IT Solution’s team will be spending the next four-weeks conducting user research, analysing existing policies and business needs. As agreed with the client, Perfectly Simple IT […]
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PSIT Commence Discovery for a Data Extraction Service
published on Wednesday, January 2nd, 2019
Perfectly Simple IT Solutions have commenced Discovery for a new service to make content from external websites available for internal use by a Recruitment Consultancy. Perfectly Simple IT Solutions will be working with the client to establish the user needs; establishing a prioritised list. We will also be documenting the information obtained from existing stakeholders and preparing […]
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Agile testing and QA including automation tools, unit, integration, functional, non-functional tests
published on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
At HMRC, we provided a testing-framework compliant with modern standards; including ISO 29119. We adopted an ‘automate-by-default’ approach, creating functional/non-functional Framework utilising Jenkins, SOAPUI, JMeter, Java & Groovy. Our independently-audited Quality-Assurance-strategy/testing-framework is ISO 29119 compliant for concepts & definitions, process, documentation, techniques and keyword-driven-testing. Other Delivery Groups on the Customs Declaration Service programme & other projects […]
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Deliver capability within an existing enterprise governance framework (including pre-existing architecture, engineering practices, CI/CD pipeline and QA approval processes)
published on Tuesday, November 6th, 2018
Our consultants created a new Integration-development capability for HMRC to work on Brexit-critical-Programmes/Projects. Working within existing Chief Technology Office, Security & Programme-Management governance, we used whitelisted technologies to develop open-source, Cloud-agnostic, MicroService/ESB-based back-end headless-services to be consumed by various project-teams developing end-to-end business services. We worked with the existing provider of CI/CD-pipeline; iteratively improving the […]
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Provide close knit, technically led JAVA development teams. It is essential you can demonstrate they have experience of successful efficient delivery as pre-existing teams
published on Monday, November 5th, 2018
Our consultants led the formation of 12 Development-Scrum-Teams (comprising Business Analysis, Automated Testing, Delivery Management & Integration/Java Development) to HMRC’s Messaging-Delivery-Group; delivering reusable back-end headless-services based on Java MicroServices and utilising Enterprise Integration Patterns including: Request/Reply, Correlation-ID, Dead-Letter-Channel, Message-Bus, Event-Message, Point-to-Point-Channel, Publish/Subscribe-Channel, Guaranteed-Messaging, Content-Based-Router, Broadcast/Aggregate, Canonical-Data-Model & Wire-Tap. Our consultants have been working together for up […]
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Ability in implementing software using the following development practices and processes; domain-driven design (DDD), Behaviour-driven development (BDD) and Test-driven development (TDD)
published on Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Our consultants iteratively-developed solutions with HMRC for extracting data from EU-systems before making it available for legacy-systems based on DDD principles. We agreed a canonical-data-model with business-users, leveraging a single-repository (PostGreSql) and employing separate bounded-contexts to present data to different legacy-systems. We re-developed the Programme-Backlogs to be Feature-Based facilitating a move to BDD; ensuring component-teams […]
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Designed and delivered MicroService based products; including system integration, where there are teams from multiple suppliers, managing multiple cross stream dependencies
published on Friday, November 2nd, 2018
Our consultants work with HMRC; designing/delivering Open-Source MicroService back-end/Middleware-Services and leading the integration of COTS/Legacy/Bespoke-components supplied by: HMRC-in-house, IBM, Euro-Dynamics, Accenture, CapGemini & Equal-Experts across 13-parallel streams in three cross-dependent programmes/projects. We delivered back-end Headless-services to other suppliers; including: MicroServices configuration storage – Hashicorp-Consul. Digital-Certificates storage – Hashicorp-Vault. Access control/security/log-management – API-Gateway/Service-Mesh(Docker/Kubernetes)/LDAP/Kafka/ELK. Consolidated Notification Service […]
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Planned and delivered Agile projects, within complex transformation programmes, adopting waterfall methods for tracking and reporting progress alongside Roadmap based planning
published on Thursday, November 1st, 2018
Our consultants work with HMRC to plan/deliver the complex Brexit-critical Customs Declaration Service and Border Systems Programme Transformation Programmes under a Scaled Agile Framework Environment; leveraging Roadmap Based Planning and reporting in an Iterative Waterfall Framework. We lead collaborative initiatives at Programme Increment Planning; planning 10-week increments and then coordinating delivery on a sprint-by-sprint basis […]
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