Introduction

Purpose

A guide to managing software development projects for Digital Health and Care Wales.

Scope

In-scope

• Good practice for requirements gathering, building, testing, and deploying software.

• Practical checklists for good practice.

Out-of-scope

• Broader lifecycle topics, including project inception, software architecture, user acceptance testing and operations.

• Guidance on publishing software as open source.

• In-depth instructions; this guide links to other standards instead.

Roles and responsibilities

Application and Product teams in the Operations and Primary Care and Mental Health directorates have a responsibility to follow this guide.

References

1. Digital Service Standard for Wales
2. Welsh Technical Standards Board Statement of Principles
3. Using Source Control
4. How to Organise Your Software Solution
5. General Coding Standards
6. Informatics Systems in Wales, National Assembly for Wales, Public Accounts Committee
7. SOP-OSD-004 - Web Applications
8. SOP-OSD-005 - Encryption in Transit
9. SOP-OSD-006 - Application Programming Interfaces

See how this handbook is organised for the full list of sections.

Conventions

This section follows the handbook-wide conventions for RFC 2119 key words and callout boxes.

The need for guidance

Developing software for healthcare needs consistent, robust practices. Following clear processes and good practice helps you deliver robust and secure solutions.