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Testing is overrated, let's talk quality instead

Posted by: Andrew Hick, Posted on: 26 October 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
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After 11 years doing Quality Assurance and Test, in both the public and private sectors, I have learned that testing is overrated, testers are lazy, talking is underrated and waterfalls, while pretty, are not always fun to negotiate. These are …

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Making the change from project to delivery management

Posted by: Frieda Davies, Posted on: 27 September 2017 - Categories: Defra digital
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Agile delivery is relatively new to government, and a lot of teams and departments are still getting used to how it works. One of the essentials is that the team structure is right, and that you have the right people …

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Introducing the Enabling Digital Transformation team

Posted by: Colin Banno-Thorton, Posted on: 13 April 2017 - Categories: Defra digital, Defra services, Digital transformation
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Our job is help Defra deliver good digital services, mainly by supporting the teams that do the delivering. In this post, I'm going to explain how we think, what we do, and how we work.

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