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Who we are and what we do
We are the public and third sector centre of excellence for digital capability.
We support public service reform and transformation by providing high quality professional learning, advice and guidance to develop digital skills, leadership and talent. The Digital Academy is the supporting function for the Scottish Government Digital, Data and Technology (DDaT) profession.
Our team is developing a series of workstreams to build capability as part of the Digital Programme.
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Why Agile?
This course explores service delivery using agile principles.
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Introduction to Scrum
This course is for people who want to know more about the Scrum Framework.
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User Story Mapping
This course is for people who want to find out more about user story mapping.
Our profession
The Digital, Data and Technology Profession (DDaT) profession spans a vast range of roles across government. We currently have over 50 digital, data and technology job roles, organised into career paths within eight job families.
The eight DDaT job families are:
- architecture
- cyber security and information assurance (Scotland only)
- data
- IT operations
- product and delivery
- quality assurance testing
- software engineering/development
- user-centred design
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Product and Delivery Practitioner
Data Maturity Programme
Agile Estimation and Planning
Digital Leadership Essentials
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Our impact
By maintaining high professional standards and delivering high-quality learning experiences, we do our best to ensure that our partners and stakeholders receive value from our work.
We report annually on our progress through monitoring. In January 2024, we introduced new standards to measure our impact following a monitoring update which sets out our key successes and achievements in 2023. In addition, so that we may improve the quality of our offer, we will draw on best practice from the wider field of professional learning.
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