What is Autism?

Autism affects the way a person experiences their environment and therefore the way they communicate. Autistic people often experience their senses more intensely than others meaning the world can feel overwhelming at times. There are many skills associated with Autism such as honesty and directness, attention to detail, an ability to find or create patterns, … Read more

What’s the difference between accuracy and precision?

Accuracy is the degree of closeness to true value. Precision is the degree to which an instrument or process will repeat the same value. In other words, accuracy is the degree of veracity while precision is the degree of reproducibility. What does accuracy mean? If a measurement is accurate, it means that it agrees closely … Read more

Avoiding Architectural Debt

In Agile design, teams work in short sprints and prioritise the most important features to be developed first. Value-based prioritisation allows startups to get a Minimal Viable Product (MVP) to market quickly and start gathering feedback from customers. Additionally, and by definition, Agile design encourages safe-to-fail experimentation early on in the product’s lifecycle, giving the designer quick … Read more

Turning business problems into data design

Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:design data architecture by dealing with specific business problems and aligning it to enterprise-wide standards and principleswork within the context of well understood architecture, and identify appropriate patterns Practitioner You can:design data architecture that deals with problems spanning different business areasidentify links … Read more

Strategic Thinking

Strategy involves creating a plan to achieve a team or organisation’s objectives. Skill level Description Awareness You can:explain the strategic context of your work and why it is importantsupport strategic planning in an administrative capacity Working You can:work within a strategic context and communicate how activities meet strategic goalscontribute to the development of strategy and … Read more

Data standards

Data standards involve established practices to make it easier and more effective to share and use data across government. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:develop data standards for a specific componentanalyse where data standards have been applied or breached, and undertake an impact analysis of that breach … Read more

Data governance

Data governance involves the set of standards, processes and policies that ensures your data is consistent and reliable throughout the data life cycle. Skill level Description Awareness This skill level is currently not defined. Working You can:understand what data governance is requiredtake responsibility for the assurance of data solutions and make recommendations to ensure compliance … Read more