Digital
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June Hackathon
4th June 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Alex Cunningham, our Communications Administrator Last week, the mygov.scot team embarked on another one of its infamous hackathons. The hugely successful two-day event included a lot of design, development and dedication, and (keeping with tradition) a lot of pizza! A few days before the hackathon team members started to jot down their ideas. On Thursday morning, like children rummaging through...
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What we’ve been working on: Friday 15th May Product Demo
15th May 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Mark demoing the bulk editor Every second Friday the team comes together for a product demo, giving us an opportunity to sit down and talk about what’s in the latest release.
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Introducing a simple, helpful tool for decommissioning websites
11th May 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Websites within the Scottish public sector portfolio that are out of date, duplicating information available elsewhere or are no longer maintained help sustain a poor experience for citizens. Through working with our partners, we are spotting candidates that display these poor attributes and are thus low hanging fruit...
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Our Approach to Agile and Kanban
28th April 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager As part of our 100 day drive more of our team have been getting trained up on how to get the most out of working in an Agile environment and we thought we could share some of their experiences here. In the office we...
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Hackathon Day #2
17th April 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager, and follows on from yesterday’s post about day 1 of our hackathon. The byline of this blog post should probably read – “the day the webcam was named “Sauron’s Eye”. Today marks the end of our hackathon and overall the mood is pretty jubilant! The team has...
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Hackathon Day #1
16th April 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager What is a hack day? Today and tomorrow are “Hack Days” for the mygov.scot team. A hack day is a chance for us to work on some different projects that wouldn’t be expected to fall within our normal development process… and to work on these in an...
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100 day drive and progress update!
13th April 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Scott McLear, our Communications Manager In February, the mygov.scot programme team embarked on the beginning of an ambitious 100 day drive to reinforce and communicate a clear vision of how we want to transform the Scottish public sector. Central to this activity is putting the user at the heart of everything we do...
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Digitising Justice
1st April 2015 by Jono Ellis
Transforming how we think; how we engage and how we deliver services to citizens and users – Guest blog from Stuart Duncan, Justice Digital Strategy Programme Director We live in an increasingly digital world where how we live and how we work is being influenced by technology. Our Justice systems are changing too and we want to...
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Supporting material through resources.mygov.scot
29th March 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy. We’re excited to mark the availability of resources.mygov.scot, which went live last week. It’s our first step towards putting live resources for better digital services. The new resources area has two main aims: to help you deliver clear content when publishing on mygov.scot to...
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Our new stakeholder management function
13th March 2015 by Jono Ellis
This is a post by Alexander Holt, Head of Transition, Digital Public Services & Business Transformation division We’re pleased to announce the arrival of the Stakeholder Manager team to the Digital Public Services and Business Transformation division. Their role is to engage with, and act as a conduit between Scottish public sector organisations and the...
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