Digital Transformation
Madetech
Full Credential Description
Challenge Skills for Care’s existing system lacked crucial features, prompting the need for support to extend its capabilities. Approach We worked to improve the Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set, addressing slow release cycles and bugs. Result We helped create a solid roadmap for the service, along with weekly and ad hoc releases. Challenge Skills for Care is a delivery partner for the Department of Health that collects data on the adult social care workforce from care home providers. This is used by the government to make important decisions about pay, training, qualifications and other work-related issues. The system they use for collecting and interpreting this data was missing some crucial features and Skills for Care needed our help to extend it. Our approach The Adult Social Care Workforce Data Set needed improving because new features were not being delivered, releases were not being deployed frequently enough and, when they were deployed, they often contained bugs. Working with our partner Difrent, we began with a two week inception that identified the wants and needs of the client, pinpointing what had been built previously and why. This enabled us to build a roadmap for our team of engineers to work on and address the technical debt that had built up. We went on to replace the monthly release cycles with multiple releases per sprint and ad hoc releases when required. We also ensured all code was free of bugs, by introducing a test suite coupled with strong cross...