Agile

For Federal agencies, the pressure is continuous and mounting—how do you adopt modern development practices and transform delivery models without sacrificing information assurance and system security controls while delivering technology solutions and capabilities faster and at a lower cost.
 
Booz Allen’s Agile experts bring unprecedented experience and expertise to clients faced with adopting and implementing Secure Agile Development. We transform their approach to secure Systems Delivery through the unification of Mission Understanding, Technical Acumen and Innovation, and Change Management. 

Booz Allen has applied Agile practices for more than 12 years and currently has more than 150 active agile Systems Delivery projects. These projects range in size from small mobile application development efforts to complex enterprise solutions supported by more than 200 project team members.

We’ve invested heavily in training, tools, and resources to facilitate adoption and implementation of the agile mindset and practices. Our team and talent includes more than 350 certified Scrum Masters and Project Management Institute (PMI) Agile Certified Practitioners (PMI-ACP), more than 60 SAFe Agilists (SA), and more than 800 ICAgile Certified Professionals (ICP) trained in the Agile Mindset and practices. We are also host to a growing cadre of staff with more advanced agile certifications, including ICAgile Certified Professionals in Agile Team Facilitation (ICP-ATF, 21), Agile Coaching (ICP-ACC, 20), and Business Value Analysis (ICP-BVA, 22) and SAFe Program Consultants (SPC, 15). Booz Allen’s SDU program, established in 2015, launched with a Department of Agile Delivery, where our staff are able to obtain agile training and certifications across many of these disciplines.

The Smartsuit™ Environment
We offer the SmartSuiteTM environment, a set of hosted, firmwide-licensed enterprise tools that enable Agile delivery in the areas of work tracking, team planning and collaboration, document management, continuous integration, requirements management, code reviews, and testing.

Agile in Government
Booz Allen offers insight and expertise to drive significant transformations of government organizations through successful agile implementations. We believe embedding value and, in most cases, radically different, principles into an organization’s project development culture is key to realizing the substantial benefits that agile techniques deliver in efficiency, cost, end-user satisfaction, ongoing flexibility, maintenance, and support.

Agile Beyond Speed
The truth is the speed of business has accelerated. Huge, cumbersome, monolithic applications are being replaced by zippier, modular, micro-services. Agile enables us, and our clients, to move quickly, no matter the challenge. Our agile development practices allow us to assemble services and ship code to production environments with little fuss or fanfare.

Agile is Modular
To think big, you must first think small. That’s why we strive to build smaller widgets and micro-services that can serve as plug-in building blocks for enterprise systems.

Agile is Flexible
The best approach to building an enterprise system is to first break it into modular pieces that are loosely coupled. It makes provisioning software more agile. It allows the team to surge and sprint in a way that’s flexible against timelines and delivery cycles.