SCRUMCONNECT LIMITED

Assurance & Design Authority Services

Advance your organization’s digital evolution with our Digital Maturity as a Service. We provide strategic assessments, tailored roadmaps, and ongoing support to enhance your digital processes and capabilities, ensuring sustainable growth.

Features

• Structured governance models align IT with organizational goals.
• Validates system designs for scalability, security, efficiency.
• Compliance audits ensure adherence to standards, regulations.
• Architectural reviews confirm alignment with strategic business objectives.
• Supports digital culture cultivation within your organization.
• Detailed reporting provides transparency, supports decision-making processes.
• Facilitates smooth digital transitions with change management.
• Enhances customer engagement through improved digital interfaces.
• Continuous support ensures adaptation to evolving tech advancements.
• Increases competitive advantage through digital innovation and efficiency.

Benefits

• Assures project alignment with strategic and operational goals.
• Mitigates risks early, enhancing project success rates.
• Streamlines compliance with global and local regulatory standards.
• Guarantees system integrity and performance through rigorous audits.
• Cultivates a strong digital culture, improving internal collaboration.
• Optimizes resource allocation, reducing wastage and project costs.
• Increases confidence in IT investments through validated architectures.
• Improves customer interactions with upgraded digital touchpoints.
• Fosters innovation with adherence to best practices, latest technologies.
• Drives innovation with tools, practices for digital excellence.

£250 a person a day

• Education pricing available

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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 praveen@scrumconnect.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.

Framework

G-Cloud 14

Service ID

361063651195248

Contact

Praveen Karadiguddi
07896206904
praveen@scrumconnect.com

Planning

• Planning service: Yes
• How the planning service works: The planning phase for Assurance & Design Authority Services begins with a comprehensive assessment of your current IT landscape and project portfolios to identify critical governance, risk, and compliance needs. We establish a clear understanding of your strategic objectives and align our services with these goals. This involves identifying key stakeholders, defining roles and responsibilities, and setting up communication channels for effective governance. A detailed audit of existing systems and processes is conducted to baseline the current state against industry standards, from which we develop a tailored implementation plan. This plan includes timelines, resource allocations, and key milestones for system validation, risk assessments, and compliance checks, ensuring a structured approach to achieving your desired state of IT assurance.
• Planning service works with specific services: No

Training

• Training service provided: Yes
• How the training service works: Training is a critical component of our Assurance & Design Authority Services to ensure your team is fully equipped to handle new systems and processes. We provide comprehensive training on governance frameworks, risk management procedures, and compliance obligations tailored to your specific needs. Training sessions are designed to enhance understanding and skills in managing and maintaining the new assurance frameworks, including hands-on exercises and scenario-based learning. Additionally, we offer ongoing education and support to adapt to changes in regulatory landscapes and emerging technologies. This empowers your team to continuously improve and sustain high levels of compliance and system integrity.
• Training is tied to specific services: No

Setup and migration

• Setup or migration service available: Yes
• How the setup or migration service works: Setup and migration involve establishing the necessary frameworks and systems to support robust governance and compliance. This includes configuring risk management tools, compliance tracking systems, and setting up design validation protocols. We facilitate the migration of your project management and documentation practices into this new framework, ensuring seamless integration. Special attention is given to maintaining data integrity and security during any system migration, utilizing encrypted transfers and rigorous data validation techniques to mitigate potential risks. This foundational setup is crucial for enabling effective design authority and ensuring ongoing regulatory compliance
• Setup or migration service is for specific cloud services: No

Quality assurance and performance testing

• Quality assurance and performance testing service: Yes
• How the quality assurance and performance testing works: Quality Assurance is integral to our Assurance & Design Authority Services. We conduct regular audits and continuous monitoring to ensure adherence to agreed standards and practices. Our QA processes are designed to identify discrepancies and inefficiencies early, allowing for timely remediations. We implement a series of checks and balances including peer reviews, compliance audits, and performance evaluations to maintain high standards of quality. These activities help to enforce best practices across all IT projects, enhance security measures, and ensure that project deliverables meet both internal and external requirements. The objective is to uphold the integrity and reliability of your IT operations, minimizing risks associated with non-compliance and poor system performance.

Security testing

• Security services: No

Ongoing support

• Ongoing support service: No

Service scope

• Service constraints: N/A

User support

• Email or online ticketing support: Email or online ticketing
• Support response times: SLA Agreed with the client
• User can manage status and priority of support tickets: Yes
• Online ticketing support accessibility: WCAG 2.1 AAA
• Phone support: Yes
• Phone support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
• Web chat support: Yes, at an extra cost
• Web chat support availability: 9 to 5 (UK time), 7 days a week
• Web chat support accessibility standard: WCAG 2.1 AAA
• Web chat accessibility testing: N/A
• Support levels: Our support levels include onsite, email and telephone assistance for incident logging and end-user support/service requests. Our projects typically employ an account management structure as as part of our delivery, support and quality assurance processes.

Resellers

• Supplier type: Not a reseller

Staff security

• Staff security clearance: Conforms to BS7858:2019
• Government security clearance: Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Standards and certifications

• ISO/IEC 27001 certification: No
• 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 are committed to further reducing our carbon footprint aiming to be carbon neutral by 2050, in line with the Climate Change Act 2008. Work from home; Our team are predominantly home based providing a reduction in emissions linked to travelling to and heating or powering the premises. IT Infrastructure: Scrumconnect has no on-premise server infrastructure with all our services being cloud based with AWS. AWS will be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2025. Cycle to work scheme: To reduce the carbon footprint of employees travelling to the premises we have an established cycle to work incentive.

  Covid-19 recovery

  Scrumconnect are committed to providing tangible community benefits for the public sector and driving social change through programs recognised for delivering results for underrepresented and disadvantaged groups. Scrumconnect Cloud has recently launched Scrumconnect Academy, which aims to provide free training and mentorship to retrain people from industries affected by Covid19 to become cloud native experts (Candidates recently made redundant, unemployed individuals with outdated skills, disadvantaged youths, veterans and military spouses and disabled people). Scrumconnect Academy will aim to tackle the misrepresentation of women (make up 26% of tech roles) and Black, Asian or minority ethnic backgrounds (make up 15.2% of tech roles) by focusing recruitment on these underrepresented groups. Additionally, Scrumconnect run 'Get Certified Challenges' periodically where we organised free bootcamps and training materials with AWS to fund exams for those affected by Covid19.

  Tackling economic inequality

  We’ll Provide training/employment opportunities, for those facing barriers to employment and/or are from deprived areas through our various partnership organisations like Diversifying groups, Jobs With pride Support digital literacy through skills development/qualifications attainment/job creation initiatives e.g. 2x starters this month via T-Level apprenticeship program Address skills shortages in high-growth sectors (Tech/Digital/Data); providing educational advice/career development/job opportunities by volunteering and sponsored events

  Equal opportunity

  We will: Ensure equitable treatment of employers, contractors and the communities integral to our value chain by implementing fair employment and equal pay practices Offer high-quality training and job creation initiatives specifically designed to empower individuals who face barriers to employment or come from deprived areas. Example: We welcomed two new starters via Disability Rights UK and in the past year we've seen more than 25% of our new hires originating from ethnic minority backgrounds via Diversifying groups Establish an inclusive work environment aided by our transparent HR policies that apply consistently from the recruitment process through promotion and compensation, benefiting both contractors and employees. Support digital literacy by actively promoting skills development, facilitating qualifications attainment, and launching initiatives that generate employment opportunities

  Wellbeing

  We have a certified mental health and wellness coach within Scrumconnect. We follow our commitment towards the 6 standards of Mental Health and ensure that our contractors/employees/Communities follow the same. We do a half yearly survey of staff engagement and bring in new policies/address needs based on the feedback. We conduct specific initiatives to promote healthy work environments. For e.g.: In times of COVID when people are connected remotely activities like virtual coffee mornings and community forums We have a well defined charter defining roles and responsibilities, job descriptions, work hours, flexible working options provided to every personnel as part of their onboarding process . Employee charter specific for this opportunity will be shared to clients prior to the start of the engagement.

Pricing

• Price: £250 a person a day
• Discount for educational organisations: Yes

Service documents

• Pricing document

  PDF

• Skills Framework for the Information Age rate card

  PDF

• Service definition document

  PDF

• Terms and conditions

  PDF

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 praveen@scrumconnect.com. Tell them what format you need. It will help if you say what assistive technology you use.