Paul DowneyIntroducing myself as the Service Owner for a new team: https://digital-land.github.io/blog-post/beta-team/
Mark Foden@psd This has been going on for a long time
Alpha-Beta-Live is not enough — Mark Foden
For me, this picture of the Alpha-Beta-Live model for implementing a service is one of the enduring images of the government's 'digital transformation'. I see it presented often. When do I see it, I often think that - although it works well for starting services up - it leaves much unsaid about w
@markfoden hmm. My story is a little more complicated. Getting the commitment to operate a platform and the powers to create standards, and the money to sustain it all took a lot of work over a lot of time, and a lot of different alphas test hypothesis and explore alternative options.