...Before submitting my application I had many reservations. Some of them included being of Indian origin and having no experience in the civil service (having previously spent over 25 years...
...role levels in Infrastructure, Network, DevOps and Software Engineering. It helps colleagues easily map which skills they need to develop for promotion or sideways career moves. The framework includes a...
...spanned over my first weeks. My previous tech background and skills were mapped to some of the projects I became involved in. The main elements of my tailored induction plan...
...Person, Object, Location, Event (POLE) model in Glue and then store the output in a flat structure in S3. Ingesting the data through Kafka and storing the data in S3...
...well as fitting the additional learning in with family life. Three weeks in and I was sat in a pairing interview doing my stuff. This was the point when I...
...approach that’s used to build things in stages, instead of trying to deliver something in one go. As well as building in stages, agile strips away unnecessary process. Projects on...
...of guidance on building and maintaining digital services, including the Service Manual, Design Principles, the Technology Code of Practice and the Digital Service Standard. It’s incredibly useful, but people don’t...
...an online application form easier to understand, or optimising the underlying code for a service – increases your own emotional investment in a project and therefore your motivation. Next time...
...needed in the first place. The aim with the design sprint was to help us understand the problem we were trying to solve, generate ideas and get a good indication...
...footer. This difficulty in moving between sections occurred several times and was a real source of frustration for him. John also had difficulties entering information into editable fields. Sometimes he...
