CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Current Artefacts User / Team Key Interactions Legacy System To Be Replaced Legacy Technology Stack REQUIRED OUTCOMES Principles Non-Functional Requirements Business Outcomes
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. An organisation structure is in place with the goal of optimising the decision making and delivery capability within the project. The individuals brought onto the project will work within scrum teams that will comprise an appropriate mix of skills as demanded by the particular user stories within each sprint. While it is likely that scrum teams will be consistent, some movement will be required to ensure that the right skills are available within each team. Each scrum team will include a mix of DVLA personnel and SMEs, with the following roles: Product Owners – DVLA Delivery Manager – DVLA/SME Business Analysts – DVLA/SME Technical Architect – DVLA Specialists – DVLA/SME Engagement of Scrum Management Services – Initial engagement should be until the end of January 2015 but should be extendable beyond this (subject to the necessary approvals being in place). Search Criteria • Agile Delivery Methodologies (to include backlog development and sprint planning) • Scrum Management (to include use of agile ceremonies x.x. xxxxx stand ups, showcases) • Financial & Benefits Management • Risk & Issue Management • Reporting • Planning • Resource Management • Portfolio/Programme/ Project Offices (P30) • Transformational Change Management Background DVLA’s Information Technology Directorate (ITD) provides information systems and services for use across the Agency. This function has overall responsibility for managing all IS/ICT services for the Agency, thus providing expertise, technology and information to drive ICT business change, innovation and improvements. In line with government policy, the Agency is seeking to transform the ICT estate to a digital, cloud hosted, open source, multi-supplier environment. The Digital Services Platform (DSP) Project is underway, building a common platform for all new digital business services. It will have a lower cost to run and maintain than the current estate, and increased capacity for the continued transformation of DVLA’s business. Requirement To support the transformation of its ICT estate DVLA is looking to procure (up to 3) Scrum Masters (as defined below) to: - § Facilitate the packaging of DSP requirements in to deliverable chunks § Drive delivery of a series of technical projects § Supplement capabilities of the existing team § Introduce new or improved ways of working aligned to best practice standards Provide an understanding of the nature of the change being delivered including: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)...
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Current team consists of Service manager, product manager, UX researchers. DocuSign Envelope ID: 1856BF83-0FD7-447E-8C4A-1797C1904366 A WebOps engineer is responsible for working with project teams to build and maintain automated deployment processes, to encourage common code ownership of the deployment stack amongst project developers, encourage the breaking down of silos between operations and development, and to monitor and administer cloud based infrastructure and platforms. Duties may include: • Participating in sprint planning to work with developers and project teams to ensure projects are deployable and monitorable from the outside. • Working with product teams on a range of tools and services, improving products to meet user needs. • Supporting development teams with application configuration for deployment, monitoring and other automation. • Working with developers to test, debug and troubleshoot issues and problems. • Building and configuring new server platforms and the automated tooling to do so. • Operational management of Linux servers, delivering a complex web application stack. • Testing, debugging and troubleshooting of platform level problems. • Supporting development teams with configuring applications for deployment. • Work with third-party providers and government departments to support a variety of integrations. Essential Skills: • Understanding of common web application architectures. • Experience configuring and managing Linux servers for serving a dynamic website. • Experience debugging a complex multi-server service. • Scripting or basic programming skills. • Familiarity with network protocols - TCP/IP, HTTP, SSL, etc. • Deploying and configuring machines in a cloud environment. • Understanding of application deployment strategies and continuous integration. • Working within a product-centric environment. • Comfortable with configuration management tools: at least one of Salt, Chef, or Puppet. • Previous experience deploying web services in Ruby or Python; or previous experience developing web applications in Ruby or Python. • Experience working in an agile environment with across multiple projects. • Knowledge of the use of version control systems such as git or subversion. • Experience administering common open source databases like MySQL, Postgres or MongoDB. Desired Skills: • Understanding of techniques for management of encryption keys and certificates. • Knowledge of the principles underlying public/private key encryption s...
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Agile Delivery Managers Some Home Office • Business Analysts Some Home Office • Product Owners Home Office • Business Change Home Office • Solution Architects Some Home Office • Test Managers Some Home Office • Subject Matter Experts Home Office • PMO Home Office • Rules developers Some Home Office • Developers Supplier • User researcher Some Home Office • Dev ops Supplier The Discovery period is expected to achieve the following deliverables:- 1. Illustrate the breadth of the problem by looking across the service. 2. Build a user-centric picture: interview users, create personas. 3. Define the test approach. 4. Create the backlog for Alpha: epics, first 2 sprints defined to story level with acceptance criteria. 5. Define the Alpha approach. 6. State objectives and measures for Alpha. 7. Publish the roadmap from Alpha into Beta. 8. State the high-level benefits. 9. Define the service vision. 10. Refine the resource profile. 11. Create a budget for Alpha. 12. State the environment requirements for Alpha. 13. Input to and support for the Discovery exit process. Principles Delivery of the solution must adhere to the following: • The system must be built using the Government Digital Service Design Principles. • The system should be developed, where applicable, according to the Digital by Default Service Standard. Contract management will include Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and a balance scorecard reflecting performance against agreed criteria, including milestone and KPI’s. Capabilities Outcomes Senior Business Analyst • Work with Product Managers to define roadmaps and translate this into high level themes and epics. • Work with User Researchers to understand the end customer (interviews, personas, empathy maps). • Partner with Dev and Test leads to translate epics into user stories. • Ensure non-functional requirements are captured as constraints on the product backlog. Product Development and • Collaborate with testers to form testable scenarios and acceptance Service Design criteria for each user story. (Business Analysts) • Facilitate the flow of required information to Product Managers for prioritisation decisions. • Design and lead workshops for establishing user journeys and stories. • Play a lead role in sprint planning sessions by introducing and explaining stories where required. • Maintain the product backlog, both physically and digitally, using the programme’s preferred digital toolset. • Form an effective communication bridge between the p...
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Current Roles: Responsibilities: FCO Services Staff All permissions to access the website for editing will be for FCO Services editing team. The CMS should be able to assign permissions-based access to a small group of FCO Services staff who will manage the content and the content authors. Administrators: with full access to edit all parts of the website and approve workflows from publishers. They will also be able to add/remove users and amend permissions as required and back up the entire site. Publishers who would have restricted access to certain pages to edit and would submit pages to a workflow for approval before a page could be made live. Authors/Contributors: Can login to: 1) create new content for a web page, potentially including illustrations, photographs, video, sound. 2) update existing content. 3) Upload content from their environment. 4) Backup a page. Provide optimized and efficient delivery platform making optimum use of commodity services and open standards. Platform must be supportable and arrangements in place for integration with FCO Services support systems and processes.
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. Current team consists of Service manager, product manager, UX researchers. Deliver designs that meet web standards, ensuring that key elements are built in from the outset Contribute to the development and continual enhancement of products Partner with colleagues to facilitate a consistent user experience Share expertise and support capability building with in-house developers and designers This project will adopt and agile approach to development and follow the principles listed under the GDS Digital Service standards. User Need will drive development and the project will look to adopt a continuous delivery approach. Sprints will be used to drive delivery including the use of retrospectives to ensure lessons are learnt and future team performance improved. NTT DATA is providing the individual(s) requested by the client on a time and material basis under the client’s management, direction and control. The client will provide any guidance, resource and software required by the individual(s) to enable the individual(s) services to meet the client’s requirements. Team members will report on a regular basis to the Delivery Manager in terms of progress against agreed deliverables. This will be done through daily stand-ups and also individual weekly meetings with the Delivery Manager. However, team members should seek to raise any issues preventing them from achieving agreed deliverables at the earliest possible opportunity with either the Delivery Manager or Service Manager and not wait for a stand-up or weekly meeting.
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. DfE project team (the Customer)
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. In order to deliver the changes above, DVLA needs to develop a Systems Engineering capability, built upon Agile development techniques, tools and processes. This will require the blend of Software Engineering, Quality Engineering, Environment and Service practices to deliver a coherent and efficient solution as below, From the information gathered from multiple sources, develop meaningful user stories complete with acceptance criteria for functional and non-functional requirements. Elicit requirements using interviews, document analysis, requirements workshops, surveys, site visits, business process descriptions, use cases, scenarios, business analysis, task and workflow analysis. Critically evaluate information gathered from multiple sources, reconcile conflicts, decompose high-level information into details, abstract up from low-level information to a general understanding, and distinguish user requests from the underlying true needs. Proactively communicate and collaborate with external and internal customers to analyze information needs and requirements (functional and non-functional) and deliver requirements Use Cases, user stories, etc., as needed. Utilise your experience in using enterprise-wide requirements definition and management systems and methodologies. Successfully engage in multiple initiatives simultaneously Serves as the conduit between the customer community (internal and external customers) and the software development team through which requirements flow. Develop requirements specifications according to standard templates, using natural language. Be the liaison between the business units, technology teams and support teams. PERSON SPECIFICATION - COMPETENCES/SKILLS REQUIRED Specialist Skills & Requirements (Essential) Proven and demonstrable skills as a Business Analyst, defining business requirements for core non-functional requirements including: High Availability failover and resiliency of infrastructure components recoverability testing including backup scheduling and data recovery methodology service continuity planning Performance Operability Alerting Monitoring Strong analytical and product management skills required, including a thorough understanding of how to interpret customer business needs and translate them into application and operational requirements. Excellent verbal and written communication skills and the ability to interact professionally with a diverse group, executives, manage...
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. In performing the services required under this contract the supplier will report to Xxxxx Xxxxxx, Head of Digital Communications, Arts Council England. Current Technologies and Languages Customer’s digital communications encompass the corporate website and other minisites (Arts Jobs) (Blog); content channels (YouTube; Slide Share; SoundCloud, Instagram, Pinterest), and social media (Facebook; Twitter; LinkedIn). Customer’s current core CMS = Django 1.0.4. Blog = Drupal Funding Platform = Grantium (in development) CRM = MS Dynamics 2013 Jobs/Recruitment = Global Successor Other Xxxxxxxxx.xxx Customer’s primary digital audiences are: arts and cultural organisations, and artists people working in the wider creative industries, political and policy stakeholders, and public policy figures/influencers people in the education sector the media the public, as engaged citizen and taxpayer Customer’s core objectives are to have a developed website/digital platform that: clearly explains the Arts Council England’s role, vision and purpose and demonstrates the impact of public spending is focused on the Arts Council’s provision of guidance and support and : provides an inclusive and supportive path to funding opportunities enables channel shift for casual queries and confident partners can use data visualisation to communicate funding and support facilitates engagement with users allows for the Arts Council’s community and audiences to share and publish content on our platform ROLE SOUGHT UNDER THIS RFP ARTS COUNCIL ENGLAND’S required outcomes for this Capability are stated below
CURRENT ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES. The CADS development team is currently and will continue to be led by DWP civil servants. As a useful guide we anticipate the size of the team to support continuous iterative developments based on the product backlog to be:
