We've secured our IMS Alpha bid!

Our project on Income Management and ePayment systems is progressing to the Alpha phase.

Posted on 13 March 2020


Submitting our IMS Alpha bid

To continue our project onto the next phase of activity, we've made a bid for support to the Local Digital Fund

Posted on 25 February 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 21 finale

That's all folks! We've given our final Show & Tell and the Discovery project is now all but complete.

Posted on 31 January 2020


Public Finance Awards 2020

Our income management system has been shortlisted for an award!

Posted on 30 January 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 20

Our outputs are taking shape now and we're into final learning, tweaking and getting ready to show and tell.

Posted on 24 January 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 19

Given the impending project deadline, our efforts have been focussed on setting up our final outputs

Posted on 17 January 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 18

Were back! Its been nice to have a little almost-downtime and now an opportunity to regroup.

Posted on 10 January 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 17

We're still paused for Christmas, but despite that some of our team have still been busy.

Posted on 03 January 2020


IMS Discovery - Week 16

We're paused for Christmas so are taking reflection on our overall progress this week. Although some work is still happening.

Posted on 27 December 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 15

We held our "Southern" workshop this week and began reflecting on our findings so far.

Posted on 20 December 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 14

We've conducted our first face to face interview, delivered our "Northern" workshop and run the agile ceremonies for our first Sprint.

Posted on 13 December 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 13

Our online survey is live and we've carried out our first remote interview.

Posted on 06 December 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 12

We've agreed our research methods for delivery and organised our first face to face workshop.

Posted on 29 November 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 11

We've consolidated our shared understanding of the project and made a start on delivery.

Posted on 22 November 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 10

We've awarded the contract for our Discovery project and held our initial delivery meeting.

Posted on 15 November 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 9

We've reviewed tender submissions from interested parties and selected a preferred bidder for our delivery support.

Posted on 08 November 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 8

The submission window on our tender process is now closed and paperwork is being pulled together for review.

Posted on 01 November 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 7

Our requirements remain published and organisations are invited to submit bids.

Posted on 25 October 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 6

We've republished our requirements for delivery support and they'll be live for 2 weeks.

Posted on 18 October 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 5

We've published our requirements for delivery support to the market but had to promptly withdraw them again.

Posted on 11 October 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 4

We've engaged with our corporate procurement team to help us buy in the delivery support we need.

Posted on 04 October 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 3

We've drafted requirements for delivery support and have taken advice from MHCLG on getting our project started.

Posted on 27 September 2019


IMS Discovery - Week 2

We've begun mobilising a team, setting up governance arrangements and planning our Discovery project.

Posted on 20 September 2019


£80,000 of Local Digital Funding approved

We've been awarded funding to discover whether our income management system could be rolled out nationally!

Posted on 16 September 2019


Income Management System on Tour

Today we paid a visit to the Home Office, following up on our conversation about the potential of rolling out our Income Management System for use by other organisations.

Posted on 14 June 2019


Council software backed for national rollout

Our local paper published a story about our Income Management system today and the potential for it's future rollout.

Posted on 31 May 2019


Working in the open

Yesterday we held our first *external* show and tell session as a product team, demonstrating the features of our in-house developed Income Management System.

Posted on 22 May 2019


Barnsley software could support councils’ take-up of GOV.UK Pay

Our Income Management System made it into the UK Authority's newsfeed this morning, presented as being a potential solution to increasing local government take up of GOV.UK Pay across the country.

Posted on 17 May 2019


We built our own Income Management solution

We recently took the decision to develop our own critical software solution, over renewing an incumbent contract. This is how it happened.

Posted on 02 January 2019


Long live the Income Management System!

This morning, under the expert guidance of Louise Kilner, the final piece of the Income Management puzzle slotted perfectly into place.

Posted on 23 April 2018