Tag: Department for Work and Pensions
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DWP still refusing to take responsibility
I have written quite a bit on Universal Credit and its potential failure and I could use today’s NAO report to rehearse the whole sorry story again. But I won’t. Because there is again something worse than the failure of an IT project here. After all, most software projects fail, and so Universal Credit is […]
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Making a hash of universal credit
A hash algorithm, for computer scientists, is a way of turning one long string (some words, a number etc) into a shorter “hash code“. Hashing is used in multiple ways – for instance to check that a file you have downloaded matches the one on the server (you hash the downloaded file data and check […]
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Weasel words from the DWP on Universal Credit?
Britain is once more being an IT pioneer, with the world’s biggest “agile” software development project – for the Universal Credit that will, the law states, replace a myriad of different state benefits in the autumn of 2013. If you know anything about software development the above sentence ought to make you feel, at the […]
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