...For the first exercise we did the ‘Minisculus Challenge’. This is a set of small coding puzzles based around codebreaking. We ran the exercises in a mob programming style, swapping...
...old, unused code which reduces the time needed to release updates improved the reliability of our system monitoring dashboards Things we plan to do next In the coming 2 to...
...Commissioner’s Code of Practice for Privacy Impact Assessments provides an excellent proposed methodology for a PIA, which was used as a starting point for the review of GOV.UK Verify. Conducting...
...code we used simplify the technical onboarding of new services by centralising the location of certain assets maintain and improve the service continue recruiting new members for the technical delivery...
...covering security, Agile methodologies, open source code and more. The process was resource-intensive but it helped to focus the team on the requirements of the live assessment and proved a...
...skipping through sections that the screen reading software identifies using the header tags in the code. However, we realised that some of the pages in GOV.UK Verify don’t use headers...
...pages (e.g. clicks made on links) and extra tagging code called custom variables which enabled us to segment the data. We also added an extra step into the process: when...
...and keyboard while the rest of the mob act as ‘navigators’ by suggesting what source code needs to be produced. Not everybody will be part of the mob at all...
...This derives from the expressed user need of, for example, ‘I need to view my driving licence so I can provide a check code to my insurer’. In practical terms,...
