Digital
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Moveable Transactions Project: creating a multi-disciplinary team
11th September 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Registers of Scotland (RoS) are undertaking a project to build, launch and maintain two new public Registers, introduced by the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023. The timeline for the commencement of the Registers is dependent on the implementation of secondary legislation. Read our…
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Moveable Transactions Project: active learning and applying lessons in real time
4th September 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Registers of Scotland (RoS) are undertaking a project to build, launch and maintain two new public Registers, introduced by the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023. The timeline for the commencement of the Registers is dependent on the implementation of secondary legislation. The Digital…
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Technology Assurance Framework – what we learned from Major Digital Project Reviews in 2023-24
16th July 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Berit Braun, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes This blog shares what we learned from the 30 major digital project reviews carried out…
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Technology Assurance Framework – what we learned from Digital Scotland Service Standard Assessments in 2023-24
16th July 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office The Digital Assurance Office, who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes. This blog shares what we learned from the 28 Digital Scotland Service Standard (DSSS) assessments…
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Technology Assurance Framework – insights on resourcing and capability
25th June 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Berit Braun, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF), share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver effectively. This blog shares our insights on the improvements project teams had to make to ensure they had the…
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National Entitlement Card smart ticketing – Meeting digital standards
30th May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. Context This…
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National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing – Creating a multidisciplinary team
23rd May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. Introduction Some Scottish island citizens are entitled to concessionary ferry travel. The aim of the Ferries National Entitlement Card Smart Ticketing project was to transform the existing service by moving from a manual paper based service to a digital and smartcard service. New digital…
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ScotPayments Design in Action (Part 1: Introduction)
15th May 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Blog by Fiona MacLellan and Cal Marr to celebrate ScotPayments milestones including £40 million with our Design in Action blog post series. Our team have a few milestones to celebrate this week! On 15 May 2024 ScotPayments service processed our 100th payment run, which means we’ve sent over £40million across 20,000 payments since we launched…
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Technology Assurance Framework – Governance and project control
24th April 2024 by Stewart Hamilton
Guest blog by Laura Johnstone, Continuous Improvement team, Digital Assurance Office. The Digital Assurance Office (DAO), who administer the Technology Assurance Framework, share the lessons learned from their assurance reviews to support others to deliver more successful projects and programmes. This blog shares our insights relating to governance and project control. This is our fourth…
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Technology Assurance Framework – what we learned from Digital Standard Assessments in 2022/23
18th October 2023 by Stewart Hamilton
In 2022/23 28 Digital Standard Assessments were completed under the Technology Assurance Framework (TAF). The Digital Assurance Office, who administer the TAF, want to share the lessons learned from our assurance reviews. This blog shares our insights on the areas that presented the most challenge to projects going through a Digital Standard Assessment in 2022/23.