aio-300 connect - first edition

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Welcome to the inaugural edition

of the AIO-300 Connect monthly newsletter!

This newsletter is designed to connect the

AIO-300 community, as well as all our other

stakeholders, to all of the activities that are

happening in our space.

I know everyone is very busy so

we have tried to keep the newsletter both

informative and easy to read. In this edition

youll learn about just a few of the many

impressive things that have been accomplished

over the last few months. Future editions

will include additional information about the

incredible work that is happening in AIO-300,

and also interesting facts about our people and

the world around us.

While we wanted to keep the

newsletter short and to the point, we recognized

that there are times when people want to

know more. In addition to the stories and

graphics youll see in the newsletter, weve

also included several links that will take the

reader to either additional information, a more

comprehensive version of the story or both!

So if you havent already, I encourage you

to really explore the electronic version of the

newsletter.

Finally, please feel free to share our

newsletter with anyone that you think may be

interested in learning more about what we are

doing, and how they can contact us if they are

interested in getting more information. Thank

you and have a great month!

P3/ AUTOMATED TESTING

Behind the scenes of

implementing automated

testing | Results and

experiences from the First

Annual Agile Summit.

P2/ INNOVATION CORNER

New PURE dashboards

released | Infrastructure

and Operations team pro-

viding 100 percent uptime

P4/ INSIDE AIO-300

The people of AIO-300 |

New Certifications | Word

on the Street | Certification

of Appreciation Awarded

AIO-300ConnectLetter From

Tim Perez

A welcome to the inaugural edition of the

AIO-300 Connect monthly newsletter.

IS001 FEBRUARY / MARCH EDITION


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This months question:

Do you check your work email after hours?

Next issues question:

Will there be a government shutdown in March?

UPCOMING HOLIDAYS

Monday, May 27 - Memorial Day

Thursday, July 4 - Independence Day

Monday, September 2 - Labor Day

The AIT Dashboard under the

Program & Project Management zone is now in

production! The AIT EPMO team and AIO-300

PURE Sprint Team collaborated in the effort

to build a mechanism to track and monitor the

status and health of various programs, proj-

ects, and milestones under the priority initia-

tives established in the FAAs Chief Information

Officers Living Governance Map. These priority

initiatives reflect the strategic goals Customer

Focus, Innovation, Operational Excellence,

and Organizational Excellence -- of FAAs IT

Shared Services (ITSS) Transformation Plan.

The dashboard uses data collected from the

different point-of-contacts who are responsiblefor specific priority initiative and therefore, pro-

vides a high-level view for the executive CIO.

The dashboard was built using agile

development methodology and the Tableau

Version 7 business intelligence tool. Based on

the frequency of data submission, the dash-

board can be updated up to two times a day.

The AIT EPMO dashboard initially

began as a prototype concept in November

2012. Since the prototype dashboard was very

well received by the customer, the team was

requested to put the dashboard into produc-

tion with a few minor tweaks by the end of the

following month. Health is displayed based on

four key performance indicators, and then color

coded based on the results. The dashboard not

only displays status and health but also has thecapability to drill-down into programs, projects,

and milestones based on user selection.

AIT EPMO - Displays status and health of priority

Initiatives, health and status of milestones

AIO-300 UPDATE

Innovation Corner

Two New PURE Dashboards

>> READ THE FULL ARTICLE ONLINE

AT PURE.FAA.GOV

80%of you check work

email after hoursThe second PURE dashboard in the

Security Zone, Executive Plan of Action and

Milestones (POA&Ms) Dashboard, is currently

live and displaying information based on data

since June 2012. The POA&Ms dashboard

was built by AIO-300 using agile methodology

and Tableau version 7.

POA&M Dashboard

GOALS & ACCOMPLISHMENTS

The Infrastructure and Operations

teams provided migration support for two hosted

solutions: SAPS (Staffing and Payroll System)

and FAACTS (FAA Asset Analysis Cross Trend

System).

In addition, the team maintained

100 percent uptime for applications hosted at

the Terremark Data Center in Culpepper, VA.

These applications include CAP, CAS, GRC,

PURE and administrative tools such as Clarity,

BluePrint, and Quality Center.

The team of system administrators,

DBAs, change and configuration analysts sup-

port numerous applications, coordinate with

FAA Enterprise Services Center, and keep

130 physical and virtual servers patched and

scanned.

>> Sherryl Van Lare | FLITES

100%

uptime

AIO-300 SURVEY


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On 25 September 2012, the FAA

FLITES Program conducted the FLITES

1st Annual Agile Summit. The purpose

of holding an Annual Agile Summit for the

FLITES program was to review the previous

actions and processes put into place by the

FLITES program to implement agile software

development and the results based on a

years worth of data.

The following is a high level timeline

up to the summit. From the Annual Summit,

there were several lessons learned identified

and assigned to the FLITES Technical

Solutions Group:

1. Identify an Application Lifecycle Management

(ALM) tool set to support and increase the

productivity of the Agile Development Projects.

2. Acquire a tool set utilizing On-Demand

(SAS) and target as program standard.

3. Pilot the implementation of the ALM

(SCRUM tool set) on one to two Sprints and

(Kanban tool set) on a couple of O&M projects.

4. After a successful Pilot, implement best

practices supported by the ALM across all

projects.

After reviewing multiple ALMs, a

suite of agile tools was chosen. The FLITES

Technical Solutions Group selected and

is piloting the Atlassian Suite of software

products. The suite consists of four tool sets,

which can be found in the section below.

For more information about the

piloting of Atlassian Suite of tools (www.

Atlassian.com) contact Randy Gladden at

[email protected]

Technical Solutions Group Implements Agile Tool Set>> Randy Gladden | FLITES

In support of the Delphi R12

upgrade, the FAA FSM project team led

by Wayne Larson (AIO-300) and Andy Cho

(AFO) are developing a comprehensive

automated test capability to ensure complete

test coverage for FAA functionality. Test

scripts and integrated business scenarios

are being captured using Oracles Universal

Productivity Kit (UPK) by the functional

team and uploaded to HP Quality Center

by the AIO-300 Test Management Team

forming a repository that can be used for

comprehensive testing during the upcoming

system integration testing (SIT IV) cycle and

user acceptance testing (UAT) cycle.

The AIO-300 Test Management

Team will automate the test scripts using

HPs Quick Test Professional product.

The automation of test scripts will enable

the FAA to conduct full regression testing

of each Oracle release to ensure that

changes in the product have not introduced

unexpected and unknown defects into the

core functionality. Automated testing of

previous Delphi releases have proven to

be cost effective with an average return on

investment of 80 percent utilizing fewer test

resources to support full regression testing.

Given the magnitude of the Delphi R12

Upgrade, the FAA is building on this base

significantly expanding automated functional

test coverage that will not only ensure that

FAA needs are met at Go-Live but leaves a

legacy of a more robust automated testing

capability for future Delphi releases.

Behind the Scenes of a Comprehensive

Automated Test Capability


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COMING UP IN MARCH

After Sequestration, a possible government

shutdown?.

NEWSLETTER SUBMISSION

To submit your content to be published

in AIO-300 Connect, please email Elliot

Volkman [email protected]

NEXT ISSUE:

People of AIO-300:Word on the Street

The following people recently received a

certification:

Brian Foreman - CAPM

Narendra Kumar - CSM

Todd Berry - CSPO

Each box within this diagram is covered in great detail during the training session,

providing extensive details of the process along with incorporating the applicable

templates, policies, and procedures.

The Tantus security team has worked

sely with the Infrastructure team and ESC to

ccessfully implement continuous vulnerability

anagement. This is a cyclical process in which

identify, assess, and manage vulnerabilities

sociated with our systems and supporting

rastructure. Our process works to report and

oritize vulnerabilities while coordinating with the

propriate personnel to bring issues to closure via

mediation or risk acceptance. As a result of the

Security and IT teams efforts we have been able

to mitigate thousands of vulnerabilities which have

brought our line of business down to a low risk

average.

Most recently we have been tasked to work

with the Chief Information Security Officer, the Cyber

Security Management Center (CSMC), AIO man-

agement, and other third party vendors to scan and

provide Security subject matter expertise on critical

vulnerability risk issues related to financial systems.

New Certifications

Gabriela Smith-Sherman | FLITES

Continuous

Vulnerability

ManagementTantus Security

Team works

losely with

ESC to increase

uccess

Word is getting out on the street that our PMO has it goin

on with regards to our documentation, as well as our

artifacts, processes and tools. - Jeff Anthony, PMO Lead

Mizanur Rahman, Narendra Kumar, Divitha Kondakindi,

arim Khan, and Todd Berry supported the FAA

nterprise Services Centers testing and quality assurance

fforts for the Oracle R12 Upgrade by conducting on-site

nd remote demonstrations of HP Quality Center and

uick Test Professional, and are working to ensure that

e use of HP Quality Center and Quick Test Professional

nterprise testing tools continues to grow at the FAA.

Todd Berry presents Mizanur Rahman with a certificate of

appreciation for successfully supporting ESC.

Awards

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