Digital Transformation
Madetech
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Challenge The NHS needed to centralise recruitment systems and processes to create a single platform for employers and job seekers. Approach Partnering with Difrent, we built an XP Agile team to ship features quickly and mentored non-technical teams. Result From rapid feature releases during the pandemic to Welsh-language support and elastic search, we delivered robust solutions. Challenge The NHS is the single biggest employer in the UK. In 2018, the BSA began developing NHS Jobs to centralise the range of different job processes that were used across the healthcare system and make a new digital service for handling jobs that is GDS compliant. Our approach Working with our partner Difrent, we joined the NHS Jobs team in order to build an Extreme Programming (XP) Agile team that could work within a larger 30 person team. To start with, we had a small backlog of features to ship and set about deploying code to put in front of customers as soon as possible. This included new pages that were released in just one week during the pandemic lockdown, enabling 5000 employers on a private beta to mark jobs as COVID-19 related. We also added localisation to the public-facing application with a Welsh language translation and have been working on elastic search functionality that is ready for use when needed in the future. Results we achieved together As well as shipping features at speed, we are adding capabilities to an expansion team responsible for live support that is made up of app...