CMMI ML3
Collaborating from Start to Finish
Historically, many government technology projects took longer than expected, ran over budget and failed to meet requirements. At CollabraLink, we’re a different kind of digital services company. Innovation is at our core. We’re agile by design. Our philosophy is user-centered, our process is collaborative from start to finish. Our clients experience simple and intuitive solutions that improve citizen engagement, on time and on budget.
Leading Government’s Digital Transformation
At CollabraLink, we deliver digital services that leverage the latest industry best practices and guidelines to improve Government’s digital strategy. Our agile process fosters enhanced communication and collaboration with constituents and with industry and agency personnel, further driving the Open Government policy.
We make User Experience (UX) a central focus by promoting Human-Centered Design (HCD) principles in our engagements. We combine that with Agile development methodologies and automated testing to ensure systems are intuitive and engaging to deliver a seamless, responsive user experience across devices and browsers. Our technical approach fuses industry best practices including CMMI ML3, ISO 9001:2008, Agile, DevOps, and others. Our team offers hands-on experience with systems such as Drupal, WordPress, SharePoint, WebGUI, Java, and .Net. Further, we leverage cloud computing to reduce costs, increase time to market, and improve availability, reliability and security.
We proudly maintain a Digital Services Center of Excellence that is focused on driving best practices and innovation in our projects and across our industry. Additionally, we have also established a Digital Lab environment that enables our Agile teams to constantly experiment with new tools and techniques, and to prototype both low and high-fidelity solutions and MVPs for our customers.
Benefits Clients Can Expect
Strong repeatable framework for development, and operations and maintenance
Transparent and collaborative environment between client and project teams
Improved user satisfaction levels through responsive and user-centered design
Digital methodology that mirrors the USDS Digital Playbook
Increased speed to market for a minimum viable product
Iterative, continuous integration and continuous delivery
Tested product that meets real needs of the users
Commercial mindset to solve government’s digital customer service challenges
Tools & Technologies
Our agile capabilities are enhanced by the latest technologies to support seamless collaboration, traceability, dashboard reporting, and automation for continuous integration and continuous delivery. Technology partners include:
Recent Project
Department of Education
CollabraLink developed new functionality on StudentAid.gov to integrate legacy loan applications with real-time access as a Web Service. We implemented a blog, and re-architect content approval business process utilizing detailed workflow for publishing. We completed all work utilizing agile development processes, which align to the U.S. Digital Services Playbook. In addition, we pioneered the sprint-based firm fixed price (FFP) payment approach, which allows the government to pay by sprint, mitigating financial risk on the project as cost is only incurred as each discrete functionality is developed and delivered.
Capabilities
National Capital Region Office 8405 Greensboro Drive, Suite 600
McLean, VA 22102
