Our journey navigating the techosphere
Our journey navigating the techosphere
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BackgroundOVO's vision is to "power human progress with clean and affordable energy for everyone". This means striving to build our digital products so that people of all abilities can use them. This year we celebrated our Accessibility Community of Interest’s…
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BackgroundRecently, we’ve been involved in a new initiative aptly named Unlock Cyber. Unlock Cyber has been established to bring together cyber representatives from employers, professional bodies, delivery partners, education providers and academia from Brist…
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The Customer Interaction Platform team here at OVO wanted to automated some manual post-release checks as part of their CI release stage. This post details some of the challenges of automating that process. These checks were generally executed manually by the…
Our team's experience of giving Scrum another chance. Here at OVO our tech teams can choose their own ways of working. Do we pair program or not? What team meetings do we have? Do we want to work in sprints? It's up to us. Scrum and Kanban are two of the mos…
Introduction This blog post is about how OVO implemented PSD2 (the Payments Secure Directive), a European directive aimed at making online card payments more secure in order to reduce fraud. At the heart of the directive is Strong Customer Authentication or SC…
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Since humans have been able to build structures, we have formed techniques and principles that other builders can apply, so they aren’t condemned to relive the same mistakes. Even the most audacious architectural marvels, such as the spectacular Duomo in Flore…