Digital

  • Opportunity to work with SPPA, Scottish Public Pensions Agency

    27th August 2019 by

    The Scottish Public Pensions Agency (SPPA) administers pensions on behalf of the Scottish Government for Teachers, the Police and Firefighters as well as for employees of the National Health Service in Scotland. The agency are looking to transform to improve the way they provide this vital service to the public sector. To make sure we…

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  • Our approach to testing

    8th January 2016 by

    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…

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  • Masterless Puppet and Declarative provisioning

    24th November 2015 by

    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…

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  • How we approach continuous delivery

    4th November 2015 by

    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…

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  This is a post by Jono Ellis, our Social Media Manager Websites within the Scottish public sector portfolio that are out of date, duplicating information available elsewhere or are no longer maintained help sustain a poor experience for citizens.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

    17th February 2015 by

    This is a post by Peter Smith, Product Owner for alpha and beta From today you can see the beta version of mygov.scot. This marks the start of a phase in which we will continually add content and features to the site, making use of the tools and processes we have been developing since the…

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  • Security within agile environments

    5th September 2014 by

    This is a post by Neil Campbell, our Information Security Officer and is part of our series on Standards & Guidelines Security within agile environments can be challenging. There’s a need to juggle a large number of competing factors including velocity, compliance requirements, ambitions around user experience and adherence to standards – all while maintaining…

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  • Architectural concepts: a quality attributes overview

    29th August 2014 by

    This is a post by Graham Beedie, our Technical Architect and is part of our series on Standards & Guidelines We know designing and building high quality software is tough. The ability to define and measure the quality of delivered software is a desired, but all too often unmet ambition. In order to fully explain what we mean…

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  • Our early thoughts on URLs

    25th June 2014 by

    This a post by Calum Shepherd, our Head of Digital Strategy. In the simplest terms a URL is the location of a web page that you visit in your web browser. Handily, if you ever need to visit that web page again in the future, you can use its URL to go directly to it. You may…

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