Agile Management

Anita Mander, our Principal Project Manager shares a bit more about what it’s like to be a project manager here at Bit Zesty.

As we enter a new decade, our in-house agency experts look ahead to anticipate how the technology trends, shifts in user experience and design, and ways of working will define how digital services will develop and how organisations will change in the coming years.  Laura…

After 16 years of developing digital products and services, we’ve found that our clients benefit from learning more about important processes in Agile development. In this ‘Client’s Guide’ series, we’re shedding light on essential parts of the development process and why they’re helpful for…

Over almost ten years of developing digital products and services, we’ve found that our clients benefit from learning more about important processes in Agile development. In this ‘Client’s Guide’ series, we’ll shed light on the main things you should expect to be involved with when…

Over almost ten years of developing digital products and services, we’ve found that our clients really benefit from learning more about important processes in Agile development. In this series, we’ll shed light on the main things you should expect to be involved with when working…

When it comes to the principles behind creating any of our digital products, the Bit Zesty team follows many of the practices set out by the UK Government’s Digital Service Standard – a set of eighteen criteria for ensuring that all government departments create streamlined,…

If you’re thinking of developing a new digital product or service for your organisation, you will already recognise just how important new technology is for transforming the operations and efficiency of your business. Alternatively, perhaps you want to launch your brand’s first digital product, but…

How developing with Agility can improve your digital projects Over the last decade Agile methodologies have transitioned from fringe usage into the mainstream, with many organisations and service providers recognising the technical advantages of developing with Agility. In this blog post, we will ex

Have you ever worked on a digital project that’s “gone wrong”? Perhaps a late launch, a blown budget, or a service which, in the end, didn’t actually do what users wanted. Although these kind of issues tend to appear towards the end of a project,…

Originally posted on the Government as a Platform blog. In my first post I spoke about the Trade Tariff which was the first service to migrate to the PaaS. During the migration we captured lessons learned so we could share them with our GDS colleagues and…

Originally posted on the Government as a Platform blog. The GOV.UK Trade Tariff is a service people can use to find licences, duty and VAT rates for goods they want to import or export. In July, the Trade Tariff became the first service to migrate to the UK Government…

The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise are some of the most prestigious business awards in the country. They’re highly competitive, with a large number of applicants and a rigorous application process. So when we were selected to rebuild their software, we were very excited. However, every…

This is a second post in the series on how we followed Government Digital Services (GDS) Service Design Phases for the rebuild of The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise service. You can learn more about the background of the project, Discovery and Alpha phases in the…

Government Digital Service (GDS) was set up in 2011 by Cabinet Office with a task to transform the provision of government digital services by putting users’ needs before the needs of government. We have been lucky enough to work with GDS since early 2013 and…

Most digital services created for GOV.UK have to go through at least one Digital By Default service assessment – the evaluation process designed by Government Digital Services (GDS) to make sure that every part of GOV.UK – no matter who created it – meets the…

“We are uncovering better ways of developing software by doing it and helping others do it. Through this work we have come to value: Individuals and interactions over Processes and tools Working software over Comprehensive documentation Customer collaboration over Contract negotiation Responding to

We’ve spent four months working to rebuild the web app behind the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise. The prestigious business awards moved their application process online couple of years ago, so we had a natural starting point – the old system. But although you can learn…

Scrum clearly provides many benefits for developers, but what about its advantages for the client and other stakeholders? This is a question I faced recently in a client meeting. To answer it, I first need to define Scrum itself. WHAT IS SCRUM? In layman’s terms,…

When contacted by potential clients, we are often presented with diverse information, including links to example sites, prototypes, feature lists, and wireframes. Other clients come to us with just an idea. But how can you best identify the features and functionality you need when looking…

While we are not big fans of technical jargon here at Bit Zesty, in some cases it is more helpful to use the correct term rather than rolling out a long and convoluted description of the thing in question each time. We use a few…

Agile software development can seem like the Wild West if you are used to the more rigid Waterfall approach. However, various agile methodologies embrace structured processes that are iterative, collaborative and particularly well suited for fast changing web development. In this blog post, we give…

It‘s amazing how many things can go wrong during the course of a web project if you don’t have a good team in control. Here, we focus on five problems which any project can encounter, and explore how – in our experience – they can…