Morning all,
I think it is fair to say that we have learnt a lot over the past year in building Learn and Units, both projects have been significant and where they have clashed with other non-negotiable work such as the JPA move and the move of our infrastructure to a new MOD environment, our progress has been slower than we would have liked it to be.
Communications around the projects has been slower, we don’t have a dedicated comms role anymore and that often means that where the focus is on doing the work itself, the updates have become less frequent, I’ll take this away to explore though because we do want to keep people informed as much as we can.
As to where we’re at at the moment, Units is still live with North region and Herts & Bucks, we continue working with volunteers and permanent staff to refine some of the processes there before launching it to the wider organisation. Learn is now live with North region and Herts & Bucks, we’ll be monitoring this with the volunteers and cadets using it before we roll out to the rest of the organisation.
We really do want to get these platforms out there, the initial launch of the platforms is key for us to return to a more agile release programme which is where we want to be. The biggest change we have to adjust to is that unlike Cadet Portal, the system we’re working on now are changing significant policy and process across the administration of the organisation and getting that right with colleagues that have to process claims, administer data etc is key and we’ve had to take much more time unpicking those areas than we had to with Cadet Portal.
Hopefully we’ll have some really exciting releases soon!