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SCS 360 Appraisal Tool Digital by Default Service Standard assessment result
The SCS 360 Appraisal Tool service is seeking permission for Beta Assessment approval.
Department / Agency:
MOJ
Date of Assessment:
17/12/2014
Assessment stage:
Beta Review
Result of Assessment:
Pass
Lead Assessor:
T. Duarte
Service Manager:
M. Madden
Digital Leader:
M. Coates
Assessment Report
The Agent Online Self Serve service has been reviewed against the 26 points of the Service Standard at the end of the Alpha development.
Outcome of service assessment
After completing our assessment we have concluded that the service has shown sufficient evidence of meeting the required standard at the Beta Assessment stage. Beta branding can be added to the service.
Reasons
The service was assessed against all 26 points of the Digital by Default Service Standard. We asked questions from the prompts and evidence for assessors, supplied by GDS. This document has questions and the evidence sought for Alpha, Beta and Live phases. We asked questions from the Beta section.
The service has passed on all the points of the standard though we have some recommendations that follow.
Recommendations
With regards to user research we recommend that you:
- confirm new researcher
- ensure effective handover from current user researcher
With regards to analytics and product performance we recommend that you:
- agree the use of data for effective service evaluation and improvement
With regards to design we recommend that you:
- address handling of expired sessions and bookmarked URLs so that users don't receive generic error pages
- re-evaluate display of form validation errors so that they're more prominent to users
- emails should be sent from the initiating user so that emails can be replied to, not notreply@gitlab.dsd.io
- new windows opened via 'more info' links contain 'back' links which open in the same new window resulting in duplicate pages; 'more info' links should either open in the same window, or 'back' links should close the new window.
Next steps
This service has been given approval to adopt Beta branding, but should address the recommendations during Beta.
Summary
Thank you for your thorough and well-prepared answers to our questions. Your team deserves to feel proud of the service and the work you have undertaken which has obvious potential for reuse across Government.
The service has passed the Beta Assessment and can adopt the Beta branding.
Digital by Default Service Standard criteria
The following table shows the result- where asking if the service passes- as against each of the 26 criteria. 22 of the criteria are relevant to this product- six were not applicable.
| Criteria | Passed | Criteria | Passed |
| 1 | Yes | 2 | Yes |
| 3 | Yes | 4 | Yes |
| 5 | Yes | 6 | Yes |
| 7 | N/A | 8 | Yes |
| 9 | Yes | 10 | Yes |
| 11 | N/A | 12 | Yes |
| 13 | Yes | 14 | Yes |
| 15 | Yes | 16 | Yes |
| 17 | Yes | 18 | Yes |
| 19 | Yes | 20 | Yes |
| 21 | Yes | 22 | Yes |
| 23 | N/A | 24 | N/A |
| 25 | Yes | 26 | N/A |
