Week beginning: 25 January 2021
Prepared by: XWS Alpha Team
- Prototyping and user testing target area and severity level selection for back office users
- Consolidated, Presented and shared the finding from our 4 external user research sessions
- reviewed and updated our target service architecture
- attended Collaboration Session with Department for Education regarding Digital Transformation
- Discovered some research and statistics that give us a wider context of take up of internet usage over time
- Feedback from our GDS assessor colleague that "back office" application are not in scope for assessment but want to understand what is being improved in the wider context. This feedback is feeding into what we prioritize in the next time box
- Review of open source message system https://www.rabbitmq.com/ and https://kafka.apache.org/ as part of the technologigy selection
- Show N Tell Presentation sharing findings of External User Research with the project team
- Scheduling in internal user research sessions 28/01/21 to 03/02/2021 for Messaging Process elements
- Walkthrough of internal user Prototype v2
- Agreeing P2 interview questions and interview preparation
- Conducted 2 internal user research sessions with the Registration Prototype V2 (well 1 today with 1 scheduled in for tomorrow)
- Captured Main Findings from the research sessions
- Continuing to recruit additional external user participants
- Continue user testing target area and severity level selection for back office users
- Catch Up with our with our GDS Assessor colleague regarding progress and Alpha Assessment
- Backlog refinement and prioritizaton for next 3 weeks, Show and Share, Retrospective and planning session
- Continuing with further rounds of research with internal users – Prototype 2
- Capture Main Findings from the research sessions
- Analyse the outputs from the internal user research sessions and agree main findings
- Elicit user needs from the internal user research sessions
- Review FWS feedback
- Create Show N Tell Presentation; User Research
- Continuing to recruit additional external user participants
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- Due to the impact of lockdown 3, homeschooling and caring responsibilities will affect people's capacity to deliver and for people (Citizens and Internal Staff) to have input into the design and delivery of this service