Challenge 2 - Technical Debt & Decision Making

HS2 is Europe’s largest infrastructure programme and this brings significant challenges around the programme scale, complexity of interfaces and the management of a large quantities of data. With the additional and ongoing pressures to meet the demands of the programme schedule, technical compromises will be made along the way which will often need to be rectified later in the programme.

The challenges we want to address

HS2 is looking for digital and data solutions to proactively identify, mitigate and manage the risk of Technical Debt being introduced into the HS2 Programme:

- Forecasting & future proofing

i.e. Digital tools to help understand and evaluate the future impact of operational and technical decisions made across the programme

- Visibility, insights & management

i.e. Identifying, capturing, and providing visibility over the level and nature of decision waste that is being accrued across the programme over time

- Data-based decision making

i.e. Digital tools that make better use of the data available within the programme to inform and supplement decision-making with a focus on reducing the level of operational overhead involved in the decision-making process

- Driving insight & value from data

e.g. Digital tools that can help HS2 drive additional value and insight from the programme’s data (for example, operational, environmental, or financial data) including the use of Machine Learning and AI techniques

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