Getting started with work on the service 'registration' process
This week has been focussed on what is called the 'registration' part of the NHS Secure Data Service.
Confusingly, this is not actually the bit where users 'register' for the service in the traditional sense. That onboarding and approval is handled by another service DARS (Data Access Request Service).
The part that is called 'registration' is rather, some user role allocation and nominated user identification, as well as some backend activation of the cloud services and data provisioning.

The difference between Service Design and Business Process analysis
Beginning to grapple with this work - a task that builds pretty heavily on some business process modelling that has been completed by one of my colleagues got me thinking about the difference between Business Process Modelling and Service Design.