{"id":1716,"date":"2016-05-31T09:48:07","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T09:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2017-07-20T09:49:18","modified_gmt":"2017-07-20T09:49:18","slug":"what-weve-been-up-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gov.scot\/digital\/2016\/05\/31\/what-weve-been-up-to\/","title":{"rendered":"What we&#8217;ve been up to"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It&#8217;s been a while since we last provided an update on what&#8217;s been going on in MyGov, which was down to the small matter of the Scottish parliamentary elections.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">While the blog may have been quieter than usual, the MyGov team have been working as hard as ever.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What we&#8217;ve been doing (January &#8211; May 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Produced a <a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/b\/uAjmhCfO\/mygov-programme-roadmap\"><span class=\"s2\">programme roadmap<\/span><\/a> and a <a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/b\/gp6BYKn0\/content-plan-master\"><span class=\"s2\">content schedule<\/span><\/a> to support long term planning and engagement with stakeholders and users.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Completed the transition process to mygov.scot for key services across Justice, Business and Transport, which included the closure of legacy websites finance.scotland.gov.uk and bluebadgescotland.org.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Developed extensive MVP feature sets for beta.gov.scot front- and back-end in advance of launch in Summer 2016.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Carried out user research on legal aid guidance.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Carried out a discovery exercise to explore how a &#8216;life events&#8217; information architecture can make it easier for users to find information on mygov.scot.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Implemented series of infrastructure upgrades to improve resilience, capacity and scalability of mygov.scot and beta.gov.scot.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">What we&#8217;re doing next (June &#8211; November 2016)<\/span><\/p>\n<ul class=\"ul1\">\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Launch and continue to improve beta.gov.scot through analysis of user feedback and usage data.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Continue transition of service information across the Justice, Business and Education sectors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Begin providing content performance data to publishers within the publishing app to make editorial decision-making easier<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Develop our redirects tool into a product to make it usable for decommissioning websites beyond mygov.scot.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Provide guidance materials to support the development and management of content on mygov.scot<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Review the performance of content formats against user needs.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Run an Alpha of a helpdesk to allow users to raise support requests and the MyGov team to track and analyse feedback and issue trends.<\/span><\/li>\n<li class=\"li1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ship the Alpha prototype of the Performance Platform to enable stakeholders and users to scrutinise data about the running of digital services.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Keep up to date by keeping an eye on our <a href=\"https:\/\/trello.com\/b\/uAjmhCfO\/mygov-programme-roadmap\"><span class=\"s2\">programme roadmap<\/span><\/a> and following our updates on this blog and on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mygovscot\"><span class=\"s2\">Twitter<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s been a while since we last provided an update on what&#8217;s been going on in MyGov, which was down to the small matter of the Scottish parliamentary elections. 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