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Planning our next 100 days
3rd February 2016
2016 is off to a great start – we spent last week looking back on our work in our previous 100-day drive and looking ahead to plan our next 100 days of work. Welcome This month sees the start of our new Programme Director, Ross Ferguson. Ross has joined us from the University of Bath, where…
Our approach to testing
8th January 2016
This is a post by Rajesh Yarlagadda and David Vidal, our test engineers. This post is the third post in our series covering how we approach continuous delivery, covering our approach to testing. Testing is an essential component of each and every phase of the mygov.scot development process, with quality being “baked in” to the product at every…
End of year support
18th December 2015
As we’re almost at the end of the year, we’d like to thank everyone who has contributed to the mygov.scot site over 2015. We have had a huge amount of input from fact-checkers and subject-matter experts and we really appreciate all of the work that has gone in to ensuring that the information that we make…
An update on our accessibility testing
3rd December 2015
This is a post by Sam Tilston, one of our user researchers, and Scott Langley, one of our user experience designers. As part of our on-going accessibility work on www.mygov.scot, we recently carried out a round of accessibility testing. It’s an important part of our overall accessibility strategy to carry out testing with real users as they…
Designing a discovery workshop
25th November 2015
This is a post by Kate Saunderson, one of our user researchers. I was part of a team that designed and delivered a discovery workshop to explore the barriers that SME’s face in raising funding. At the full day event, we explored barriers and solutions with 56 SME’s, advisors and funders. During lunch, an attendee told me that…
Masterless Puppet and Declarative provisioning
24th November 2015
This is a post by Gordon Clark, one of our Infrastructure Engineers, and Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager. This post is the second post in our series covering how we approach continuous delivery, covering the tools that we use. We are not precious about our servers, they are just tools for a defined purpose and…
Introducing the web analytics initiative
12th November 2015
This is a post by Rui Cardoso, Business Analyst and Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy We’ve been thinking about how we can provide insight into the Scottish public sector web portfolio. The Scottish Government has a large web portfolio, with many organisations providing multiple websites – all with unique propositions. It’s important that we, as Scottish…
SME Discovery Day
10th November 2015
This is a post by Kate Saunderson, one of our user researchers, and Denise Lamond, one of our user experience designers. What do Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), business advisors and funders think about the challenges faced by SMEs when they seek advice and funding to grow their business? That is the question that the Business Development Bank…
How we approach continuous delivery
4th November 2015
This is a post by Gordon Clark, one of our Infrastructure Engineers, and Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager. Over the next few weeks, we have a series of blog posts coming up which cover our approach to continuous delivery. This first post is a high-level overview of our work, mostly written for our readers…
Design style guide
26th October 2015
This is a post by Chay Nicholson, our Creative Lead. The first pass of our Design style guide has just been published to the mygov.scot resources site. The Design style guide aims to provide guidance to developers and designers in producing digital services for or aligned with mygov.scot. The guide covers design thinking and approach,…