{"id":122,"date":"2014-09-04T11:52:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T10:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sqablogs.lndo.site\/computing\/2014\/09\/04\/operational-plan\/"},"modified":"2014-09-04T11:52:00","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T10:52:00","slug":"operational-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/operational-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Operational plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The team&#8217;s operational plan is our work plan for the year. It defines what we aim to do during the current financial year (April to March). There are two ways for a development to get onto the plan: one way is for the qualification to be due a review (normally every five years); the other way is when a business case has been made and approved. The starting point for many new developments is the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sqa.org.uk\/sqa\/36524.html\">ideas capture form<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My current operational plan has a number of developments on it. These include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>review of NPA Digital Literacy<\/li>\n<li>review of PC Passport<\/li>\n<li>review of HNC\/D Computer Games Development<\/li>\n<li>review of HNC\/D Interactive Media<\/li>\n<li>review of HNC\/D Information Technology.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>There are a number of smaller developments too, such as the new <a href=\"http:\/\/sqacomputing.blogspot.co.uk\/2014\/04\/big-data.html\">big data units<\/a>.<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>We&#8217;re at various stages in these developments but most are at relatively early stages (some have not commenced). We&#8217;re always looking for people to get involved, so please <a href=\"mailto:hilary.weir@sqa.org.uk\">contact Hilary<\/a> if you are interested in the Digital Literacy or PC Passport reviews or <a href=\"mailto:caroline.douglas@sqa.org.uk\">contact Caroline<\/a> for the HN developments.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The team&#8217;s operational plan is our work plan for the year. It defines what we aim to do during the current financial year (April to March). There are two ways for a development to get onto the plan: one way is for the qualification to be due a review (normally every five years); the other way is when a business case has been made and approved. The starting point for many new developments is the ideas capture form. My current&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post","format-standard","category-computing-posts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.qualifications.gov.scot\/computing-digital\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}