OLIVE JAR DIGITAL LTD
Prototyping
Our expert team can efficiently implement a rapid approach to prototyping using Agile techniques, which allows for quick testing and refinement. We help to prove that the concept is viable and ready for full execution.
Features
- Rapid Inception - proof-of-concept created quickly through collaborative workshops
- Testable, useable prototypes built in 4-6 weeks
- User feedback collected on each iteration through cloud-based testing
- High quality Minimum Viable Product rapidly produced
- All prototypes built focussed on user needs and feedback
- Incubation and idea propagation, discovering new opportunity
- Influential with challenging stakeholders and complex environments
Benefits
- Using our knowledge from many other Government projects
- Implementing new tools and technologies reducing costs and time
- Leading projects, ensuring delivery and risks known and mitigated
- MVP built with minimal code waste
- User feedback processed quickly to guide iterations
- Prototypes created accurately and rapidly, testing hypotheses
- Defined MVP scope and validated business cases developed
- Identifying fewest products needed for success, reducing costs
- Outcome focussed methodology, focussing on Digital by Default
- Strong track record of innovative delivery
Pricing
£400 to £1,000 a unit a day
Service documents
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Framework
G-Cloud 14
Service ID
2 6 6 4 1 1 1 1 0 4 2 1 3 2 8
Contact
OLIVE JAR DIGITAL LTD
Pierluigi Garibaldi
Telephone: 020 3289 8669
Email: dos@olivejar.co.uk
Planning
- Planning service
- Yes
- How the planning service works
- Olive Jar delivers prototypes to help validate hypothesis and to help define and design what users need based on their feedback through testing. This allows us to adapt to user needs at speed and only build what the user needs.
- Planning service works with specific services
- No
Training
- Training service provided
- No
Setup and migration
- Setup or migration service available
- No
Quality assurance and performance testing
- Quality assurance and performance testing service
- No
Security testing
- Security services
- No
Ongoing support
- Ongoing support service
- No
Service scope
- Service constraints
- No Constraints
User support
- Email or online ticketing support
- Yes, at extra cost
- Support response times
- Weekend response times are agreed on a case by case basis.
- User can manage status and priority of support tickets
- Yes
- Online ticketing support accessibility
- WCAG 2.1 A
- Phone support
- Yes
- Phone support availability
- 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
- Web chat support
- No
- Support levels
-
We provide second and third line support. Our support costs are on a case by case basis.
We provide an Account Manager for every client on all G-Cloud engagements. Their responsibility is to ensure that our customer objectives and goals are met. They address any issues with service delivery and they act as an escalation point of contact. They can be reached via phone or email, and will respond to any issues beyond the control of the team that are providing the service.
Resellers
- Supplier type
- Not a reseller
Staff security
- Staff security clearance
- Other security clearance
- Government security clearance
- Up to Developed Vetting (DV)
Standards and certifications
- ISO/IEC 27001 certification
- Yes
- Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
- British Assessment Bureau
- ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
- 29/02/2024
- What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
- N/A
- ISO 28000:2007 certification
- No
- CSA STAR certification
- No
- PCI certification
- No
- Cyber essentials
- Yes
- Cyber essentials plus
- Yes
- Other security certifications
- No
Social Value
- Social Value
-
Social Value
- Fighting climate change
- Covid-19 recovery
- Tackling economic inequality
- Equal opportunity
- Wellbeing
Fighting climate change
We have a Carbon Reduction Plan published on our website, which rolls out our roadmap to achieve Net Zero emissions by 2050.
We will support clients in minimising the contract’s environmental footprint by minimising travel (where appropriate), using digital collaboration tools. For example:
-Using Slack / Teams for continuous, open communications, agile ceremonies, and training delivery
-Virtual boards displaying project progress
-Conducting user research interviews via phone, video conferencing, email or other online means
Our practices will include:
Using an energy efficient office with:
-Maximum natural light
-Energy efficient lightbulbs
-Recycling points
-Easy commuting through public transport
Minimal, efficient, green travelling:
-Balance of home / remote / office working, using digital collaboration tools
-Booking multiple visits/meetings when travelling; maximising each trip
-Car sharing/public transport where possible
-Walking/cycling-to-work schemes
Going paperless:
-Moved our operations online from 2017 (e.g., SharePoint for file storage; e-signatures for contracts; induction/onboarding packs to digital formats)
Responsible disposals:
-Recycling packaging etc.
-Donating old laptops/equipment
Future Carbon Reduction initiatives that we are either planning or investigating include:
-Achieve ISO 14001 accreditation within the next 10 years
-Create and implement a green switching bonus/incentive scheme for working-from-home employees to encourage them to switch to renewable energy providers
-Encourage staff to use a green search engine like Ecosia which plants trees with each search
-Work with Carbon Neutral Britain to become a Certified Carbon Neutral Business, and offset any emissions we cannot reduce, or sponsor our employees to become members and offset their own personal emissions.
-Joining the SME Climate Hub to be a part of the discourse surrounding Net Zero along with other small businesses
-Sign up to SBTI and CDPCovid-19 recovery
We are committed to helping local communities manage and recover from the impact of COVID, as demonstrated:
-We donated 20% of forecasted profits from an NHS / Health Education England contract to food banks
-Over the last 3 years we donated £75,000 to South-West charities
We will continue our commitment throughout the delivery of this contract (where the contract allows) by:
-Hiring and upskilling those that find it difficult to find jobs because of COVID, in a variety of digital and business support disciplines
-Promoting volunteering for staff members to support community organisationsTackling economic inequality
Where contracts allow, we will recruit apprentices, use our Olive Jar Academy to provide free training, and collaborate to deliver initiatives such as ‘Codebar’ which introduces people to the tech world as a potential career path, with mentoring.
We will continue ensuring that digital services cater to those with disabilities, accessibility needs, low digital skillsets/confidence, reducing inequality. For example, services we’ve delivered include:
-Offline capable single page application tolerating connectivity issues. Suitable for low tech users
-Modern browser enabling text-to-speech conversions; and customisable colour, contrast and font size
-Helpline; for those digitally-excluded
-Simple, easy-to-understand English; for non-native English speakers
-Independent accessibility audits and applying WCAG latest accessibility standardsEqual opportunity
Olive Jar is proudly inclusive; committed to promoting equal opportunities, diversity, inclusivity and fairness; and develops, promotes, and maintains practices conducive to these.
We have an Equality Diversity and Inclusion Policy in place when recruiting teams, reviewed every two years or when there are changes to legislation or other relevant policies.
Our staff get full employment rights from their first day. And we will ensure equality and inclusivity as demonstrated in past projects:
-37% of assigned resources identify as non-White (compared with UK’s <14% non-White population)
-38%:62% female-to-male ratio (compared with 17%:83% industry average)
-Work with resourcing partners with joint ethos to address technology industry imbalances, for example those that support women in technology.
-Non-discriminatory vacancy advertising, e.g., not mandating university degrees where the role does not require it
-Training/awareness via regular equality/diversity/inclusion training, extending training invitations to clients and their other suppliersWellbeing
All staff receive holiday, rest breaks, time off for emergencies, right to request flexible working, ‘keeping in touch’ initiatives (e.g., ’buddy’ programmes, virtual team games etc).
Wider wellbeing initiatives include:
-Dedicated mental health/wellbeing champion
-Free wellbeing support programme for employees and their families
-Mental health awareness training (invitations extended to clients and their other suppliers)
This is further supported by our inclusive and supporting practices:
-Professional development plans, mentoring, training, coaching programmes
-Recognising achievements; encouraging praise and positive feedback
-Valuing every opinion (e.g., we encourage company-wide votes on bid opportunities, marketing approaches etc.)
-Ongoing continuous improvement of all initiatives
Pricing
- Price
- £400 to £1,000 a unit a day
- Discount for educational organisations
- No
Service documents
Request an accessible format
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need versions of these documents in a more accessible format,
email the supplier at dos@olivejar.co.uk.
Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.