gchq / boilingfrogs Goto Github PK

I hate to be pedantic but this should be in British English, I think.

Pg. 8;
"A useful mechanism for understanding different types of work, and the different approaches that
may be applicable to delivering them within a portfolio is the “Commoditization Scale”. The
Commoditization..."

Pg. 22;
"Value is recognized when Customers perceive one or more of the
following:
 A problem of theirs is solved or minimized
 An opportunity they desire is seized, maximized ..."

Pg. 50;
"Lean thinking tells us to minimize the..."

Pg. 54;
"However, where possible we should minimize layers"

PDF is a dreadful format for delivering information on screen. They are good for one thing and one thing only, printing.

https://www.nngroup.com/articles/pdf-unfit-for-human-consumption/

And I suspect that considering you are decimianting this document via github your audience is likely to be the type of people who read things on screen, rather than print them out for the train ride home.

This is both a communication failure and a user experience failure. And you claim that...
"...GCHQ has a reputation for the best technical delivery organisation in the UK Government, itself a leading example of digital Gov around the world".

Hello Authors

I am wondering will you be updating this article anytime soon any news insights?

On Page 8

For example, an organisation building public service websites would not build a software configuration management system for itself, this is a commodity capability that is best served by well-established tools such as the open source Git.

SCM in the context of git means Source Code Management System rather than a software configuration management system. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_open-source_configuration_management_software and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Git_(software)