Case Study: Department for Education modernises education statistics discovery with Hive IT

Department for Education completes 12-week statistics discovery with Hive IT

The Department for Education sought to modernize how its official statistics were disseminated and to better understand the needs of its users. Their challenges included an inflexible publishing platform on GOV.UK and time-consuming routine tasks for statisticians, preventing them from telling clear stories with data. Hive IT was engaged to conduct a discovery project to explore these user needs and identify options for improvement.

Hive IT executed a 12-week agile discovery project, completing extensive user research and testing both inside and outside the department. Their solution provided the DfE with a comprehensive report containing clear recommendations for future Alpha projects and smaller incremental changes for quick wins. The work successfully shaped the roadmap for the service's next phase, providing the DfE with practical next steps to more fully meet its users' needs.

Department for Education