We leverage our prestigious CMMI Level 5 for Development certification to deliver best-in-class Agile application development, DevOps, and DevSecOps for our clients. Our ScrumMasters, developers, and graphic user interface (GUI) professionals work in sync to create exceptional deliverables for our clients. Our approach utilizes industry best practices for the delivery of code and peer reviews, and iterative delivery with close client involvement and reliance on automation where possible. We use 2-week sprints and daily scrums to lead the development, and perform backlog grooming, retrospectives, and continuous delivery and integration across the project, with quality control and assurance built into the process.
Agile with BI
At BI, the focus of our agile development work is to produce high-quality deliverables of smaller, incremental software developments, with active stakeholder involvement.
The BI Difference in Agile:
- Automated build, test, deployment, and provisioning
- Dashboards & versions for everything
- Functional testing based on behavior-driven development (BDD)
- Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) standard platform topology
- Effective team collaboration
- Agile-Waterfall hybrid as needed
- Role-based access controls
- Operational Intelligence
Our stakeholders benefit from this holistic approach, with the end result being early identification of ROI and project risks, increased collaboration, higher quality development with fewer bugs, and continuous improvement.
DevSecOps
BI practices “DevSecOps” which entails security awareness and security best practices throughout all phases of design, development, and deployment. For example, for Job Corps at the Department of Labor, we performed redesign for 131 websites and micro-websites hosted in the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. The project management combined traditional Agile Scrum techniques with first-order DevSecOps. Using Jenkins, state-of-the-art virtual technologies, interactive user interface (UI) design norms, and Ansible scripting, we engaged in continuous secure development, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. The work entailed extensive testing in pre-production environments as an aspect of quality control.
BI helped DOL Job Corps to accelerate time-to-market by reducing time spent across all stages of the application development life cycle through automation. By leveraging the Agile methodology and incorporating security testing into the development process, DOL benefited from shortened development life cycles and faster project completion. The BI DevOps Continuous Integration team provided support throughout the project with continuous enhancements and milestone measurements, thereby improving business performance for DOL. BI ensured applications were installed, configured, and patched per DOL’s compliance, enabling their respective prescribed performance.
