Digital

  • Introducing a simple, helpful tool for decommissioning websites

    11th May 2015 by

    This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Websites within the Scottish public sector portfolio that are out of date, duplicating information available elsewhere or are no longer maintained help sustain a poor experience for citizens.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

    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

    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

    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

    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

    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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  • Alpha review: University of Stirling guest post

    1st October 2014 by

    This is a guest post from Kathy McCabe, Stacie Lindsay and Ryan Kaye from the University of Stirling When the University of Stirling were given the opportunity to feedback our views on mygov.scot alpha, my colleagues and I jumped at the chance – this was our opportunity to help shape a service that will put the people…

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  • From a to b (alpha to beta)

    5th September 2014 by

    This is a post by Peter Smith, Product Owner for Alpha and Beta Alpha is now live and in use. So far we’ve had over 44,000 page views and 1,800 users visit the site. We anticipate this to increase when we make a more formal public release from November.  

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  • Alpha now available to Scottish Government staff

    7th August 2014 by

    This is a post by Tom Meade, our Programme Manager We’ve been working on an alpha release for the past 10 weeks, learning a lot along the way. So what is the alpha? Alpha is our way of trying to see if we’re doing the right thing for our users. It’s our ambition that overtime,…

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