Quick start
popular toolsWhat we run
Track my application
LiveLets citizens check the status of a submitted application without calling anyone.
Barbados Digital Toolkit
LiveResources and tooling for digital service delivery across government, beyond the alpha team itself.
Prototypes
Alpha experiments, mostly GitHub Pages per the prototype-hosting standard (#2009). Each card links the live prototype and its repo. Not production services.
People & HR
BambooHR
LiveThe HR system of record: leave requests, personal records, org chart, and company policies. If it's about you as an employee, it starts here. Log in with your GovTech account.
→HR document library
TBCShared HR documents (handbooks, forms, onboarding checklists) live in Google Docs, access-controlled per document. TODO: confirm with HR which docs to signpost here, then list each with its own blurb.
→Delivery & Planning
Miro
LiveCollaborative whiteboards for project planning, workshops, and service mapping. Reach for it when a conversation needs a shared canvas rather than a document.
→Team assignments
LiveWho is working on what, by team and initiative. Check here before asking in Slack who owns a service or workstream.
→GovTech Roadmap
LiveThe delivery roadmap: what we are building and roughly when. TODO: confirm whether this or the Notion public roadmap is canonical, then mark the other as a mirror.
→Design & Code
Figma
LiveDesign files, prototypes, and the component library. Where every screen is designed and reviewed before it is built.
→GitHub — govtech-bb
LiveAll source code, issues, and pull requests for GovTech services live in the govtech-bb organisation. Project 7 is the shared work backlog.
→Design system
LiveThe coded component library behind our services — use these components before building anything new, so services look and behave like one government.
→Standards & Docs
Barbados Digital Service Standards
LiveThe public standards every GovTech service is measured against. Read before starting a new service; cite during service assessments.
→Ways of Working playbook
LiveThe operations playbook: how we run ceremonies, make decisions, and collaborate day to day. The first stop for "how do we do X here?".
→Notion documentation
LiveTeam documentation workspace: meeting notes, drafts, and longer-form internal docs that have not (yet) earned a more permanent home.
→Dashboards & Monitoring
Incident Response & Ops
Ordered for use: prepare → respond → learn.
Incident response playbook
TBCHow we classify severity, who to escalate to, and the steps to run when something breaks. Read it before you need it. TODO: link the playbook. If none exists yet, this entry is the prompt to write one — owner: engineering.
→Alerts & live status
LiveLive alerts route to the #alpha-gov-alerts Slack channel (SNS → Chatbot). Pair with the Observability and Service dashboards above to see what is actually happening.
→Postmortems
TBCBlameless write-ups of what broke and what we changed. TODO: link the postmortem log location. If none exists yet, name an owner rather than pretending — owner: engineering.
→Comms & Public
Slack
TBCWhere the team talks. Key channels: #alpha-gov-alerts (live service alerts — during incidents, watch here first). TODO: add our workspace URL.
→GovTech comms
LivePublic-facing communications and announcements from GovTech Barbados. What citizens and press see; link it, don't duplicate it.
→Public roadmap (Notion)
LiveThe externally shareable roadmap view. TODO: confirm canonical roadmap (see Delivery & Planning) and cross-reference accordingly.
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