Additional Information
user centered design
What is User-Centered Design?
User Centered Design is the process of building insights about users' experience through usability testing and other forms of user research into product development through an iterative design process. This process allowed us to include the user in every step of the development process, while prioritizing features that are the most beneficial. User experience (UX), which deals with the specific experience users have with a product, is a component of the UCD process.
UCD Process
Design is based upon an explicit understanding of users, tasks, and environments; is driven and refined by user-centered evaluation; and addresses the whole user experience. The process involves users throughout the design and development process and it is iterative. The team includes multidisciplinary skills and perspectives.
DevSecOps
What is DevSecOps?
DevSecOps (development, security, and operations) automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery. The benefits of DevSecOps are simple: Enhanced automation throughout the software delivery pipeline eliminates mistakes and reduces attacks and downtime. Hangar 18 provides DevSecOps processes and tools on its projects to control code changes, find security issues early, and deploy software to the customer quickly and often.
How it works?
With automation at the center of the DevSecOps model, delivery of capabilities is virtually continuous. A broad spectrum of best-of-breed tools are readily available to integrate the development, operations, and security functions. Additionally, the software lifecycle functions all share in the outcomes of the process, which provides significant incentives to work together and seek improvements. This is a much-needed paradigm shift for many AF projects.
Agile
What is the Agile Model?
Agile is a framework that breaks the developmental process into iterative steps, allowing for flexibility, testing, and change throughout the lifecycle of the project. Teams complete work in sprints, which are typically broken out into two-week chunks of time. Various checkpoints throughout the project allow the team to change direction as needed. Agile can be implemented in several different ways, the most popular being Scrum, Extreme Programming, and Kanban.
Advantages
Under the Agile framework, delivery of initial capabilities is rapidly increased, which has several implications. Project risk is reduced because the customer is able to accept or reject pieces of the project much earlier, and they may opt to change course on a regular interval. Contrast this with the traditional Waterfall method, which delivers a monolithic product for review after much of the project budget has been expended. Another benefit is the tighter integration of lifecycle components, which work in close proximity throughout design, development, test, and deployment. The net effect is a higher quality product delivered in less time, at less cost.
