NeXt Warning System (XWS) Week 3 Update

Week beginning: 7 December 2020

Prepared by: XWS Alpha Team

What we’ve been up to this week

Refining the user needs that came out of our user testing
Refining our ways of working
Preparing for next weeks user testing on our external users prototype
Increasing our understanding of Targeted Flood Warning Service via a show and tell
Exploring how we can manage user stories and acceptance criteria
Initial discussions with External Digital Services on CAP XML and potential uses in XWS, we will explore more in the new year with the Alpha team, FWEP and FIM service
EDW separation discovery kick-off with External Digital Services to start thinking about what we want and next steps
Catch up with Lucy Jarvis our Flood Resilience Team Leader rep on the XWS project board
Engagement session with Evidence & Business need to follow up on other hazards needs in a warning system
Preparing questions for Floodline agents to help get additional external participants for user research
Considering the development approach for a "Hazard agnostic" system
Confirmation that Content Designer will be be joining Defra and XWS Team on 4th Jan 2021
Investigating and presenting to the team the ideas around Domain Driven Design and Event Storming as potential candidates to add to our ways of working
Investigation the use of docker and docker-compose to enable new developers to get the four POC services and the backing DB up and running locally

User testing with external users
Wider Flood team user centred design community meet up sharing research findings
Engagement sessions with AFCRMs on XWS project board
XWS Project Board
Alpha Show & Share (recordings will be shared next week)
Reporting and administration discussions with External Digital Services
Continue working on the local development experience and documentation for developers
Consider when and how we will run an Event Storming session early in the New Year