Systems Development and Maintenance

Our long history of management consulting guides and empowers client engagements in areas such as strategy and change, organization and process improvement, and human capital, learning, and strategic communications. These essential capabilities provide the foundation for Systems Delivery that aligns people, processes, and technology to achieve missions and goals.

Agile methods, User Experience (UX), DevOps, open source technologies and cloud-based services all contribute to effective systems delivery, and at Booz Allen, we are not just practitioners of these methods but also serves as thought leaders in the field, with a deep bench of expertise. Our experts are speakers at some of the industry leading conferences on Agile, UX, and DevOps. We have more than 200 certified Scrum Masters and Project Management Institute Certified Agile Professionals; more than 400 developers trained in the Agile mindset and practices; and a cadre of 20 Agile coaches who help projects and clients adopt Agile practices. Our SmartSuite™ environment is a set of firm-wide enterprise tools, processes, and intellectual capital that support Agile delivery in the areas of team collaboration, sprint planning and tracking, continuous integration, requirements management, automated code reviews, automated testing, and defect tracking.

We successfully refreshed our CMMI® ML3 rating in October 2014, and we are executing a tactical plan to achieve Maturity Level 4 by early 2016. In addition, we have some of the most accomplished Human Capital capabilities in the industry, and are widely respected leaders in change management. For example, partnering with the Georgetown University, we have created the first-of-its-kind graduate-level certification for Change Management Advanced Practitioners (CMAP) focusing on a full suite of change capabilities to drive successful and sustaining change for Systems Delivery.

Booz Allen’s clients span government and industry, and include the Department of Defense and all branches of the US military; intelligence agencies; civil departments and agencies such as the Department of Homeland Security, the Department of Energy, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of the Treasury, and the Environmental Protection Agency; major corporations with a focus on financial services, health, and energy; and international government ministries primarily in the Middle East/North Africa; global funding institutions such as the World Bank; and not-for-profit organizations. Our insights provide a unique ability for helping clients think through their overall challenges and develop viable options. Beginning with strategic up-front thinking, our involvement spans the entire mission lifecycle.

Business partners include Amazon Web Services, Agile Alliance, ICAgile, Microsoft, Red Hat, Intel, Oracle, Salesforce, Apple, IBM, EMC and 1776. The firm is investing approximately $1.5M to train and certify staff in our business partners’ technologies.