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DevOps solutions for
achieving Continuous Delivery
From cloud-based start-ups to large legacy Fortune organizations and government agencies, we can help you apply 21st-century tools and technology practices to achieve better outcomes aligned with your organization’s goals — whether your focus is on adopting Agile DevOps practices, cloud strategies, deployment automation or simply achieving better business alignment between IT and the rest of the organization.
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Services designed accelerate software delivery while reducing costs, driving efficiencies, and managing security, risk, & compliance mandates.
We help government agencies adopt technology strategies and tools of today so they are better prepared to meet their mission needs of tomorrow and beyond.
LOOKING TO BUY DEVOPS SERVICES WITH FEDERAL YEAR-END FUNDS?CASE STUDY: US PATENT & TRADEMARK OFFICE
Automated CI/CD platform accelerates delivery of NextGen software.
Faced with a mandate to reduce patent pendency, the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office contracted Steel Thread Software to help it increase software quality and frequency of releases delivered to production by using modern Agile and DevSecOps approaches powered by open-source continuous integration, configuration management, and continuous delivery tools.
THE CHALLENGE
IT approach not well aligned to meet agencies’ needs in the digital age. Outdated technology, organizational constructs, and processes designed in the 20th century have not kept up with the demands of the modern workforce.
OUR SOLUTION
We partnered with the client to manage the transition to Continuous Delivery approaches. Our team designed and executed change management strategies with a focus on continuous integration and automated testing. We introduced DevOps toolchains to automatically and reliability build, test and deploy agency software products while driving greater IT efficiency, effectiveness, and accountability via customized continuous delivery workflows.
KEY BENEFITS
An automated software delivery solution that meets the OCIO’s enterprise CM compliance standards, and provides the ability to know exactly what differences, if any, exist between application environments and who changed what when. Reduced time to deliver mission critical software from months to hours.
21st CENTURY GOVERNMENT IT
As user’s needs increase, feature deployments become more frequent. Automating these deployments then becomes mission critical. Having an automated CI/CD strategy plays a crucial role in DevOps teams today and eliminate the bottlenecks typically associated with delivering software without compromising quality.
CASE STUDY: DISA FORGE.MIL
Enabling Agile innovation within the DoD.
In 2009, the U.S Department of Defense, Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) established Forge.mil, a collaborative development environment and social coding platform that now supports over 20,000 software DoD IT professionals around the world. Steel Thread supported the DISA Forge PMO as the strategic agile development team to envision and develop the highly successful, awarding-winning Forge.mil service capabilities.
THE CHALLENGE
Enabling adoption of open-source and commercial Agile software development best practices within the DoD’s highly complex delivery environment (including a rigorous information assurance compliance and Waterfall heavy process culture).
OUR SOLUTION
Implemented a a feature-rich collaborative Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) toolset including a secure, centralized repository to store software source code. DIACAP certified on NIPRnet and available on SIPRnet.
KEY BENEFITS
Minimized duplication of effort waste across DoD by promoting the discovery and re-use of source code artifacts. Established a DoD marketplace or application store (“AppStore”). Cultivated hundreds of communities of interest (COIs) serving as “incubators” for future development initiatives
ACCELERATED DELIVERY OF MISSION NEEDS
Forge.mil’s customize agile collaborative development environment was IOC approved and put into action in under four months — a notable accomplishment given that a typical DoD software project schedule is measured in years.
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