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Supporting Scotland's vibrant voluntary sector

Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations

The Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations is the membership organisation for Scotland's charities, voluntary organisations and social enterprises. Charity registered in Scotland SC003558. Registered office Mansfield Traquair Centre, 15 Mansfield Place, Edinburgh EH3 6BB.

Posts tagged Product

Here's the latest roundup of progress on the project, and our first big post of 2016. It's also going to be one of my last, as I will be leaving SCVO soon to pursue new challenges elsewhere. The project is in great shape and we are all set to launch our public beta in a couple of... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress on the project. I didn't manage to post at the end of Sprint 9, so this is a double post to catch us back up to the present day! Sprint 9 Done (technical): Implement cached content on homepage Implement ability to opt out of receiving... Read more

Exciting news: we've just deployed the official alpha release of Good HQ, a new feedback platform for charities and good causes in Scotland.It's here to do three things: To help charities and good causes gather feedback about what they're doing well and how they could improve To... Read more

This is something of a milestone update: our alpha product is close to feature complete, and we are now accepting signups from anyone who is interested in taking the product for a spin. Head over to the Good HQ homepage, hit sign up to get started, and then let us know how you... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress over the last fortnight. There's been a brief hiatus since the last post, as we've also moved across Edinburgh to a new home at Hayweight House on Lauriston Street. This gives us more room for whiteboards and problem-solving, and as an added... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress over the last fortnight. We deployed a new, stable pre-release build of the platform and have begun gathering user feedback. The user-generated content on the platform is still test data at this stage; in a couple of week's time we will reset... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress over the last fortnight. A pre-release edition of the product is online under the working title Good HQ, and we've started to roll out a small number of test accounts. Done (technical): Improved user pages showing more useful summary... Read more

We've been clear from the outset of this project that we're going to put our users first. Of course, when you're running product development it's easy to get carried away with the build and to lose touch with what your users actually need it to do. The team - and the people... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress over the last fortnight. Pretty much all of our MVP features are in place, and we're starting to send out invites to our sandbox environment for a small number of people to begin exploring. The next sprint is mainly technical consolidation to... Read more

Here's the latest roundup of progress over the last fortnight. We've had a big push to get the minimum feature set in place, and by the end of the next fortnight we should be ready to open up a sandbox environment for a wider group of users to begin testing. Done (technical... Read more