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Experience using Java 11
published on Sunday, August 30th, 2020
Situation: HEE required a front-end to interface with its Java-based core server code. Task: Consume Java API/Microservices in to facilitate providing data to the front-end application. Actions: -Communicate to Java APIs for GET, PUT, POST, PATCH and DELETE HTTP requests. -Implemented API error handling on the front-end for UI notifications. -Collaborated with back-end […]
Continue reading →Experience using Camel
published on Friday, August 21st, 2020
Situation: HEE uses Camel as the integration layer to orchestrate HTTP requests from the front-end to the back-end. Task: Communicate to Camel, via HTTP requests, to obtain data via back-end. Actions: -Collaborated with business, back-end developers to impact using Camel as an orchestration layer. -Provided input from a front-end developer’s perspective on how […]
Continue reading →Experience using Docker
published on Thursday, August 13th, 2020
Situation: HEE required a consistent approach to deploying and running applications. Task: Run and consume front-end and back-end Revalidation Docker images. Actions: -Instantiate Docker images via command line in order to consume back-end Microservices locally. -Obtain latest Docker images for development on local-machine using AWS command line. -Run local front-end Revalidation application against […]
Continue reading →Experience using MySQL
published on Saturday, August 8th, 2020
Situation: HEE Revalidation 1.0 (2016) used MySQL as the back-end storage. Task: Communicate to local MySQL database so that local back-end microservices can provide data. Actions: -Setup local MySQL database in collaboration with back-end developers. -Manipulated/interacted with back-end Data in MySQL database using both command line and the MySQL application UI; to test […]
Continue reading →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 […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration
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 […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Case Study, Systems Integration
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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Teaching, knowledge transfer and pair-programming
published on Sunday, August 2nd, 2020
Situation: HEE Revalidation required cutting edge, well documented code based on good design/development practises. Task: Actively collaborate with others; sharing expertise/knowledge for good code development/future maintenance. Actions: -Pair programmed on Front-End features, AWS Cognito implementation and infrastructure using Terraform. -Collaborating on code/reviews/pull requests by making constructive suggestions on how to improve code. -Hosted […]
Continue reading →Experience of an Agile/Scrum environment and able to apply the Agile philosophy to your day-to-day work
published on Tuesday, July 28th, 2020
Situation: HEE Revalidation project required an efficient team to iteratively deliver business value based on User needs. Task: Deliver prioritised features leveraging Agile Scrum approach. Actions: -Actively contributed to: Backlog Refinement, Sprint Planning, Show & Tells, Retrospectives and Daily Stand-ups. -Collaboratively worked on Agile backlog, delivering incremental features based on agreed prioritisation to […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Agile Delivery, Clients, Solutions
Experience using REST, SOAP, microservices
published on Friday, July 17th, 2020
Situation: HEE Revalidation required UI leveraging multiple REST/SOAP/Microservices. Task: Develop and consume REST/SOAP/Microservices to retrieve Trainee information. Actions: -Collaborated on REST endpoints to define urls, headers, requests and responses. -Made HTTP requests as REST that were converted to SOAP requests to communicate with GMC connect. -Consumed Microservices to send recommendations to GMC. […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Clients, MicroServices, Solutions
Experience using Testing frameworks – Jasmine, Cypress
published on Tuesday, July 7th, 2020
Situation: HEE Revalidation required robust testing. Task: Implement TDD approach for UI features; verifying functionality with e2e tests. Actions: -Collaborated with development-team; implementing 72%+ unit test coverage for the Revalidation codebase by adhering to a TDD approach using Jasmine. -Discussed existing e2e testing strategy amongst HEE developers and adopted Cypress as the choice […]
Continue reading →AWS and DevOps knowledge
published on Monday, June 29th, 2020
Situation: HEE required restricted access to the new Revalidation application. Task: Implement an Authorisation strategy for front-end application as well as the server side API calls. Actions: Collaborated with Business/Back-end Developer/DevOps/Front-end Developer to: -Implement an Authorisation strategy via AWS Cognito. -Collaborate with AWS technical support to overcome AWS Cognito challenges. -Restrict access to […]
Continue reading →Experience using Angular 9
published on Saturday, June 27th, 2020
Situation: HEE required a modern UI for Doctor Revalidations. Task: Migrate an Angular-JS UI to Angular 9. Actions: -Collaborated with Business/BA/Back-end Developer/DevOps to design/implement a migration strategy. -Designed/implemented reusable components for multiple pages (Recommendations, Concerns & Connections Summary) leveraging solid programming principles. -Implemented Redux pattern facilitated by NGXS state management. -Implemented dynamic url […]
Continue reading →Teaching, knowledge transfer and pair-programming
published on Monday, June 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our consultant leveraged 5+ years experience transferring knowledge/training/mentoring: -Pair-programmed on Bi-directional work; ensuring quality and rapidly bringing new starters, through a high team growth period, up-to-speed. -Developed coding/pipeline standards and best practises; publishing on JIRA/Confluence. -Used SonarQube to enforce/govern standards, along with architectural/code reviews, facilitating learning-through-failure in a […]
Continue reading →Knowledge of web services/REST and microservices
published on Friday, May 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team was instrumental in the setup CI/CD design/development/automated-testing process; developing multiple RESTful/SOAP/Queue-based/File-Transfer-Services for services utilising open-source-software/Java-MicroServices: -Created multiple RESTful web services for consumption by TIS Admin UI. -Designed/developed REST services for reading-from/writing-to multiple back-end systems (TCS/Auditing). -Used TCS services for bi-directional flow between TIS/ESR to get/modify data […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Clients, MicroServices, Solutions
JIRA and Confluence experience
published on Wednesday, April 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged 5+ years experience of JIRA/Confluence: -Fortnightly management of requirements in JIRA through backlog refinement/sprint planning of Features/User Stories/Tasks. -Daily collaboration/status updates through task maintenance in JIRA; including remaining effort, decisions and issues. -Documented API technical designs in Confluence; facilitating briefing to other developers. -Collaborated with […]
Continue reading →Have experience in Messaging systems (Kafka, RabbitMQ)
published on Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged advanced Messaging-Systems experience: -Designed/implemented real-time message tracking system across multiple enterprise applications produced by internal/external-teams. -Leveraged Wire-Tap Enterprise-Integration-Pattern; streaming message data via RabbitMQ; facilitating scalable system-monitoring system. -Designed/implemented RabbitMQ Publisher/Consumer services providing a resilient, event-driven, guaranteed delivery pattern between systems. -Designed/developed distributed transactions pattern to […]
Continue reading →Experience working with MSSQL or MySQL to query databases
published on Sunday, March 22nd, 2020
HEE had a number of MySQL databases covering TIS. Our team leveraged his significant experience of querying databases: -Created SQL scripts to manually load National Insurance numbers into TIS. -Used custom SQL queries to identify process issues in current ESR code. -Wrote comparison SQL script for pilot testing. -Helped HEE staff troubleshoot SQL issues. -Conducted […]
Continue reading →NHS Modelling and advanced analytics cases studies and experience
published on Monday, March 16th, 2020
HEE/NHS had a history of poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR leading to multiple manual workarounds. Our team was tasked with modelling the HEE/NHS data sets and finding/resolving issues: -Modelled NHS data received from ESR using Neo4J; using used small datasets to refine the model. -Modelled the permissions, users and resources from an easily accessible file […]
Continue reading →Practices Agile principles
published on Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged Agile competence: -Collaborated in Scrum Team migrating data from Azure MySQL to AWS Aurora. -Included software-stack-upgrade to minimise programme-disruption. -Responsible for technical briefing to non-technical-business-stakeholders. -Iterative approach; feeding lessons-learned into development-process. -Led Agile-Guilds for Software-Development and Integration-Design. -Continuously updating the Dev Runbook Section to support […]
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Previous experience working with Public Sector clients or the NHS
published on Saturday, February 22nd, 2020
Our team has extensive Public Sector experience across multiple organisations; including most recently at HEE: -Designed/developed schemas for TIS. -Loaded NI numbers on to TIS to align with ESR. -Conducted interviews with Product Owner, end users and GMC technical staff on redevelopment opportunities for Reval. -Documented Reval ‘As-Is’ processes and data flows on Confluence. -Provided […]
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NHS Experience including stakeholder management
published on Sunday, February 16th, 2020
HEE/NHS had a history of poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR leading to multiple manual workarounds. Our team was tasked with persuading Trusts to rely on the synchronised data after implementing a new bi-directional interface: -Held in-person sessions to list perceived issues. -Produced a full process map to show coverage of the full business process. -Clearly […]
Continue reading →Experience with Git
published on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged advanced competence of GIT: -Demonstrated JGIT-Flow with Maven creating build-process, facilitating improved iterative/frequent-delivery of working-software. -Instrumental in design/implementation of IaaS GIT-Configuration-Repository; ensuring rapid provisioning/repeatable environment-configuration. -Used GIT-Branch-strategy to handle business-features/defects/hotfixes; enabling segregated-environments. -Collaborated on source-code-on-commit implementation; facilitating early code-quality detection. -Followed GIT-code-review-process, significantly improving code-quality […]
Continue reading →Demonstrable experience of Jira and Confluence
published on Wednesday, January 22nd, 2020
HEE used Confluence/Jira to document/manage their work Our team leveraged extensive experience: -Documented design discussions and decisions on Confluence. -Produced a Runbook section to support common issues and how to fix them. -Modified existing Confluence structure for ESR work, archiving old information, splitting information into a more navigable format and focusing on user experience. -Produced/managed […]
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Demonstrable experience of working successfully with and alongside NHS (or comparable) data teams
published on Thursday, January 16th, 2020
HEE/NHS/GMC had inconsistent data sets between multiple systems. Our team was tasked with understanding multiple data sets and improving synchronisation: -Worked with data teams to produce high level (qualifications) and low level (field) agreed datasets for interfaces. -Worked with data teams to improve ESR NHS098 specification and highlight/resolve (data/process) issues. -Led reporting workshops/coached data teams; […]
Continue reading →Have Junit, Mockito
published on Sunday, December 22nd, 2019
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged extensive bi-directional integrations testing experience; including JUnit/Mockito: -Created stubs with Mockito when implementing unit testing for Java based services (for upload/download to AWS S3, sending/receiving messages from/to RabbitMQ; MongoDB wrappers; TCS end-point-configuration; guaranteed-delivery; retry; dead-letter); leveraging JUnit, Test Containers and LocalStack for testing. -Collaborated on […]
Continue reading →Evidence of experience to map, agree, and document data flows and data ownership for systems integration purposes
published on Sunday, December 22nd, 2019
At HEE there was a need to update trainees details from ESR (NHS employment system) to ensure trainee details were current and reduce manual work and errors. Our team facilitated agreement on data flows/ownership: -Working with business managers and the ESR team to map and agree datasets to be updated on the master system. -Using […]
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Understanding of NHS datasets and relevant uses cases or applications of this data
published on Monday, December 16th, 2019
HEE/NHS/GMC had inconsistent data sets between multiple systems. Our team was tasked with understanding multiple data sets and improving synchronisation: -Designed/developed modern TIS/ESR integration, defining/synchronising data sets for trainee personal information. -Designed/developed TIS/GMC integration; synchronising trainee doctors’ revalidation information. -Collaborated on NHS ODS Store integration for the national data warehouse. Outcome: -ESR integration successfully updates […]
Continue reading →Successfully delivered Front End development utilising JavaScript and HTML
published on Thursday, November 28th, 2019
Our team leveraged JavaScript/HTML for developing the configurable Recruitment Dashboard for IT Recruitment Marketplace: -Designed/developed conditional candidate details entry; allowing variable number of roles and variable number of achievements per role; automating candidate details capture/display. -Implemented configurable multi-stage recruitment-pipeline; allowing bespoke recruitment pipelines creation utilising reusable components: candidate details capture/CV scoring/remote & face-to-face interview scoring/candidate […]
Continue reading →Successfully developed WordPress Content Management Systems
published on Monday, November 25th, 2019
Our team successfully developed an Automated Recruitment Dashboard for IT Recruitment Marketplace leveraging WordPress-CMS: -Implemented custom roles for candidates/administrators/authors/approvers/publishers. -Implemented individual branding for organisations/departments/teams. -Created custom post types for companies/departments/teams/candidate profiles/roles. -Designed/developed custom templates for display; including: carousels and conditional filtered lists for displaying candidates/roles. -Implemented custom workflows for content creation, management and display; including […]
Continue reading →Have Java 8-11, Maven, Gradle, Spring/Spring Boot
published on Friday, November 22nd, 2019
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged 10+ years systems Spring/Spring-Boot experience: -Used Factory-Pattern to promote high-cohesion/loose-coupling within multiple services. -Used Abstract-Factory-Pattern Java-Microservice for multiple services. -Used Prototype-Pattern; reducing coupling within middleware-layer for TIS/ESR systems. -Used Adapter/Wrapper-Pattern-based Java-Microservice Audit Service data. -Used Facade-Pattern Java-Microservice within File Reader Service. -Used Strategy-Pattern to send […]
Continue reading →Evidence of strong stakeholder management skills, and the ability to communicate and build relationships effectively with a broad range of people, both verbal and in writing
published on Friday, November 22nd, 2019
HEE were introducing a bi-directional interface with an NHS system to fix numerous interface issues. Our team managed stakeholders/communications: -Met face to face with NHS team; listening to their concerns and learning their goals. -Produced clear information through documents, tables, diagrams and presentations that were then discussed with individual stakeholders and at shared governance meetings. […]
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Information Governance experience within an NHS context
published on Saturday, November 16th, 2019
HEE/NHS had an inefficient interface for Junior Doctor information through TIS/ESR. Our team designed/developed an Information Governance process to improve data quality: -Produced first schema used in the system and showed data quality issues through validation. -Standardised values and data quality through conditionality and enumeration. -Mapped differences in coded/standardised values and encouraged standardisation and adherence […]
Continue reading →Work in partnership with HEE so that knowledge and skills can be shared to support any alpha services that are developed
published on Wednesday, October 30th, 2019
Problem: Royal Mail had workforce planning and retention issues; requiring in-depth analysis of data through Machine Learning (ML). Our team: -Made recommendations for a ML platform/process. -Collaborated with Royal Mail staff to identify staff groups; establishing risks/issues blocking retention. -Established ETL process for leveraging existing datasets; iteratively developing algorithms for use by ML development teams. […]
Continue reading →Have Linux, Docker, Cloud platforms
published on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
HEE wished to move TIS to the Cloud. Our team leveraged extensive Docker/Docker-Compose experience on Linux/AWS/Azure: -Collaborated on data migration: MySQL to AWS Aurora using AWS. -Proposed migration of data from MySQL to MongoDB; demonstrating POC using AWS Aurora, DMS, Kinesis Data Streams and Lambdas. -Prototyped End-to-End application workflow using Docker, facilitating visualisation of business […]
Continue reading →Filed under: Clients, Cloud Migrations, Solutions
Process re-design and optimisation and mapping of user journeys. Producing As-Is and To-Be business process models
published on Tuesday, October 22nd, 2019
HEE were using a historic codebase that processed/produced csv files from an NHS system. Our team mapped user journeys and business processes; highlighting numerous issues with stability, performance and data quality: -Produced ‘As-Is’ model that explained numerous issues faced. -Worked with wider team on the desired ‘To-Be’ state; documenting the ‘To-Be’ process in Confluence. -Produced […]
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Experience working with NHS-specific datasets
published on Monday, October 21st, 2019
Problem: HEE required a bidirectional integration with NHS-specific datasets. Our team: -Analysed and documented the NHS (Electronic Staff Register) and HEE (Trainee Information System) datasets. -Mapped/developed transformations between NHS and HEE. -Designed/developed ‘as-is’ and ‘to-be’ data flows. -Created/updated schemas to standardise data inputs; identifying master data across both datasets (facilitating ‘store once/replicate’ policy for NHS/HEE […]
Continue reading →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 →Have considerable experience in testing systems
published on Sunday, September 22nd, 2019
HEE/NHS had poor data synchronisation between TIS/ESR. Our team leveraged extensive bi-directional integrations testing experience: -Collaborated with internal/external-teams (TIS/ESR); agreeing BDD/TDD approach using 3-pillars-of-truth: specification/schema/mock. -Collaborated on Testing Plans/Specifications, developed acceptance criteria on JIRA/Confluence. -Conducted POC using JBehave/Cucumber for systems testing -Provided governance/best-practices/coding standards using SonarQube. -Iteratively developed code; leveraging JUnit for unit-testing. -Conducted product […]
Continue reading →Evidence of experience in Business Analysis – gather needs and analysing information using comprehensive tools and techniques
published on Sunday, September 22nd, 2019
HEE required an ESR/TIS Bi-directional interface. Our team gathered user-needs and analysed information: -Identifying needs/performing gap-analysis, continually communicating iterative solution progress to the stakeholders; through JIRA. -Gathering/refining business requirements from product-managers, legal, end-users, documentation and third-party suppliers by conducting interviews/workshops/questionnaires; documenting results on Confluence. -Documenting requirements using BPMNL, Use-cases, User-stories and Activity-diagrams. -Proposing multi-cost solution/options; […]
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Experience working on developing or enhancing Recruitment technologies/platforms
published on Tuesday, September 17th, 2019
Our team successfully developed an Automated Recruitment Dashboard for IT Recruitment Marketplace leveraging WordPress-CMS: -Implemented custom roles for candidates/administrators/authors/approvers/publishers. -Implemented individual branding for organisations/departments/teams. -Created custom post types for companies/departments/teams/candidate profiles/roles. -Designed/developed custom templates for display; including: carousels and conditional filtered lists for displaying candidates/roles. -Implemented custom workflows for content creation, management and display; including […]
Continue reading →Data Analytics Platforms and Solution design and development (with NHS or relevant experience)
published on Monday, September 16th, 2019
HEE/NHS had an inefficient interface for Junior Doctor information through TIS/ESR. Our team designed/developed a data-analytics platform; identifying inconsistent data: -Created ESR bulk-load process into Neo4j Graph-database. -Matched data to TIS system values. -Created standardised queries, using pattern matching, highlighting inconsistencies in ESR data and unexpected/erroneous TIS updates. -Facilitated user-access to explore/export data for further […]
Continue reading →Experience designing and deploying ML services within the NHS
published on Monday, September 9th, 2019
Problem: Historic sales data not driving NHS purchasing decisions. Our team: -Collaborated with stakeholders to agree objectives, target features, data inputs and expected improvements. -Collaboratively agreed success measures. -Agreed a ‘hold-out validation set’ evaluation protocol with stakeholders. -Extracted, transformed, loaded data from multiple disparate NHS databases; based on agreed data extraction policies including: missing data, […]
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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Successfully utilised and implemented Web analytics (Google Analytics)
published on Monday, July 22nd, 2019
Our team implemented Google Analytics at IT Recruitment Marketplace : -Identified popular content and fed it back on organisation, department and team basis. -Captured entry points allowing organisations to get best value from advertising of roles. -Utilised exit points to establish reasons for incompletion of applications; feeding lessons learned into development process and content creation […]
Continue reading →Agile Coaching certification/Agile delivery certification/Project management certification Coaching certification
published on Monday, July 8th, 2019
Significant (20+ years) agile development, delivery, support and mentoring experience; with relevant certifications including: -Agile Coaching & Delivery: -Certified Scrum Master (Scrum.org) -Certified Product Owner (Scrum.org) -Six Sigma Green Belt -Project Management Traditional -Prince II Foundation -Prince II Practitioner
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Experience in successfully performing interaction/UX design
published on Friday, June 28th, 2019
Our team completed successful iterative interaction/UX design at MediaPharm ; working collaboratively with stakeholders: -Identified the audience, creating user personas for anticipated functionality. -Defined functional and non-functional requirements based on user research; prioritising backlog based on business value. -Established a data dictionary and created design patterns for agreed functions. -Created wireframes for usability testing; feeding […]
Continue reading →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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Experience using natural language processing and machine learning technologies
published on Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Problem: IT Recruitment Marketplace required an automated candidate matching service. Our team: Discovery -Conducted multiple-user-workshops; establishing requirements for Artificial-Intelligence(AI)/Natural-Language-Processing(NLP)/Machine-Learning(ML) to automate user-journeys. Alpha Conducted iterative (user-based-feedback) prototype-development based on high-risk backlog-items: -Automated-CV-categorisation based on submitter-organisation/subject/type; sending through JIRA-workflows for processing – including conversion of action-items to JIRA-tasks for tracking through to completion. -NLP using Tensorflow […]
Continue reading →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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Experience of working in a local Authority environment or similar
published on Wednesday, October 24th, 2018
Problem: Improve agile adoption across local authorities. Our team: -Conducted Agile adoption workshops for local authorities and businesses -Worked with Thurrock Council on Agile in Digital Transformation. -Worked with Southend Council on: -Agile in Digital Innovations Office. -Promoting agile-ways-of-working with the Robotics, AI and Technology Team. -Facilitated agile adoption with the Social Worker Service Transformation […]
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Experience of digital projects handling complex, sensitive data at scale
published on Wednesday, September 19th, 2018
Problem: HMRC required a Customs-Declaration-Service to handle 250 million+ complex/sensitive transactions/annum: Our team: Discovery -Collaborated on establishing user-journeys/personas during workshops/interviews; identifying key areas of sensitive-data. -Explored wider context for integrations with external-organisations requiring sensitive-data: DEFRA/Home-Office/Border-Force. Alpha -Iteratively designed/developed external-integrations with OGDs requiring sensitive-data. -Designed/developed secure data-at-rest/in-transit prototypes; iteratively tested/refactored based on ongoing user-feedback. -Designed/developed prototypes […]
Continue reading →Experience of managing successful delivery alongside other suppliers
published on Monday, July 16th, 2018
Problem: HMRC required an Integration-team to work alongside other suppliers. Our team: Discovery -Agreed goal/problem-definition with stakeholders. -Assessed user-journeys/personas; in-collaboration-with other teams (Cap-Gemini/Accenture/Equal-Experts/In-house). -Identified client-constraints; conducting cross-team-workshops; identifying overlaps/gaps across 4 value-streams in SAFe-programme/improvements/cost-savings. -Agreed cross-team Alpha-backlog with success-measures; ensuring cost-effective, viable-service. Alpha -Adopted risk-based-prioritisation; selecting high-risk integrations with Digital-Frontend/Rules-engine/finance-system/DataStore. -Focused on end-to-end journeys (with […]
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