Truly Crapita can do no bad. One has to wonder how many civil servants or/and military personnel are expecting jobs when they leave their current employers.
Royal Navy and Air Force get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga
Perhaps learning from the not-insignificant errors attributed to the Army’s efforts at recruitment IT, the UK’s Navy and Air Force have decided to farm out development of their systems with the award of a £9.5m contract to low-code software specialist Pegasystems. A contract award notice said the Royal Air Force and Royal Navy …
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Thursday 4th March 2021 12:27 GMT amanfromMars 1
Stranger things have happened ..... and are happening all the time too, nowadays.
One does have to ask, given the litany of admitted failures, are they, Capita, a Trojan Horse destroying homegrown talent in favour of a foreign power, or is it just serial incompetence based upon the fraudulent promise of excellent products and services ‽ .
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Thursday 4th March 2021 12:58 GMT Mark C 2
Low code
Nothing fancy, just re-branded BPM. It does work under the right conditions and automating a well-defined process is a good example where BPM works well. I have used Pega in a bank to automate credit processing which is highly regulated and needs to support large volumes, way more than RN/RAF applications.
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Thursday 4th March 2021 21:49 GMT Outski
Re: Better solution
UK armed forces went straight from dishonourable discharge, loss of medals, rank & pension elements for anyone held by a Court Martial to be wearing rainbow laces, to full on "Come on in the water's lovely" - Don't Ask Don't Tell was never a thing here, only in the US.
Happily, last month's court ruling goes some way to redressing the consequences of the former stance, but won't make up for the damgee of the intervening years: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/feb/16/british-soldiers-sacked-for-being-gay-can-get-their-medals-back
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Thursday 4th March 2021 14:03 GMT Claverhouse
Back in the Mists of the Past
I vaguely remember a time when military recruitment had passed on from grabbing people and hitting them with sticks, yet still needed no computing; instead youths, mostly, strolled into Army Recruitment Centres.
No doubt spoilt by the IRA --- though if anywhere should be securely screened from attack it is such places --- but it didn't cost billions to run.
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Thursday 4th March 2021 16:47 GMT rg287
Re: Back in the Mists of the Past
Armed Forces Career Offices still exist. You need somewhere to do Phase 1 candidate interviews before actually sending them off to a selection centre somewhere.
The IRA were an issue. Most centres have discreetly armoured glass and you have to be buzzed in through the front door.
But they've reduced the number and some are also "branch" offices, usually staffed full-time by Army bods with RAF and Navy/Marine advisors only available a couple of days a week. There aren't many where you can walk in and bods from every service are available to talk to you. In many cases they're no longer a one-stop-shop covering the whole process between enquiry and central selection, meaning you might have a small office in your town where you can sign up and talk trades, but you then need to travel to go to an interview, or book appointments to speak to a relevant advisor.
Consequently it makes increasing sense to centralise and digitise the administration, which also reduces physical paperwork being held in branch locations, simplifying DLP/Infosec from a Physical Security standpoint. They also want to avoid recruit details being shipped between offices via USB stick cough. Shipping a dossier of recruit details from an office to a handful of Selection Centres is one thing, but when they can be bouncing to different recruiting offices there's far more scope for material to end up in the wrong place.
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Thursday 4th March 2021 16:52 GMT Pascal Monett
So now it's low code
They obviously haven't the faintest idea what it is, but it's trending, so we'll ask for that.
Um, guys, low-code means you don't need a coder to write it up. You can do it yourselves. THAT'S WHAT IT'S FOR.
Tendering for a low-code "specialist" is like hiring someone to eat your food for you. You can eat it yourself.
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