NCSC Cyber Assessment Framewok, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit & NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria

The DSPT is an online self-assessment tool that allows organisations to measure their performance against the National Data Guardian’s 10 data security standards and must be reported yearly if interacting with patient data. The DTAC is an assessment framework for care commissioners and providers to use when assuring digital health technology (DHT) product. It is… Continue reading NCSC Cyber Assessment Framewok, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit & NHS Digital Technology Assessment Criteria

The Agile Architecture Guide (part 1: Product Development)

Introducing A New Organisation to Agile Product Development As the new CTO, Chief Product Owner, Chief Architect, Lead Engineer or just natural leader it may be your responsibility to introduce an Agile way of working to a new Organisation. We are going to walk through the common steps to successfully introduce Agile methodology and we… Continue reading The Agile Architecture Guide (part 1: Product Development)

Calculating UK Gov Cost of Technology Change

There have been 10 UK Government U-Turns so far in 2020. Each change will have had an associated IT change cost. This is my best personal assessment of what each of these changes would likely have cost. I will provide justification for each of my assumptions and will tend towards a lower possible range. I… Continue reading Calculating UK Gov Cost of Technology Change