4 Recommended Ways of Working

In addition to using suitable analytical IT tools, associated ways of working should:

• Comply with AP information governance procedures, Data and Analysis coding standards and Analytical function coding practices.
• Use Git/GitHub repositories to store and share code.
• Use Slack to get and give assistance (better than alternative tools for code/error sharing, the AP team use it exclusively and it integrates with GitHub).
• Utilise and update centralised data source documentation (e.g. about data quality, quirks, descriptions of non-obvious fields). For curated Athena databases use the Data Discovery Tool.¹¹ Knowledge about other data sources should be maintained by the relevant team in some kind of structured document or repository.¹²
• Utilise Reproducible Analytical Pipeline principles - see MOJ RAP manual and RAP Minimum Viable Product (MVP) guidance.

---

11. See the AP user guide section Data Discovery and Documentation and the Data Discovery GitHub page↩︎

12. E.g. at minimum a spreadsheet, and not just in the narrative documentation for the project↩︎