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Ariel has a prime contract to provide Agile Audit Support (AAS) for the Social Security Administration Office of the Inspector General (SSA OIG). We are providing a team of Agile coaches and technical experts to perform a thorough assessment of SSA’s large-scale Agile software projects and a review of SSA’s implementation of Agile and DevSecOps methods. The work will help improve SSA’s Agile processes, governance, and oversight and will inform OIG’s reports to US House Ways & Means Committee, Senate Finance Committee and the GAO.

Ariel trained over 1100+ Air Force personnel in Jira Fundamentals & Advanced Jira features. Ariel’s training covers the fundamentals of Scrum, Kanban, Scaled and hybrid Agile approaches and demonstrates how Jira supports each of them through custom Jira configurations and selected plugins.

The training environment includes highly realistic simulated data and covers topics such as dependency management, scoping, story mapping, estimation, project forecasting, metrics, and dashboards.

Ariel is providing technical and organizational process improvement expertise for the New York City Housing Authority Office of Information Technology . Our engagement is to improve delivery of services, improve productivity and reduce delays using selected lean, agile, and DevOps practices. Ariel is working with key NYCHA stakeholders to design and implement a new operating model that encompasses value stream mapping, redesigning workflows, creating visual transparency and aligning the right people to the right roles. The work is designed to place the voice of the customer at the center of all efforts to drive change and improvements. Our goals are to improve efficiency and productivity, laying the groundwork for future automation.

For the next six years, Ariel Partners is supporting the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) as a prime to maintain and enhance the eVital system. eVital prepares and certifies vital records including birth, death, marriage, and divorce records for millions of New Yorkers. This system is operational 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to aid in connecting hospitals, courts, funeral homes, insurance companies with state, local and federal agencies. It is crucial for the provisioning of essential services to New York citizens during life events as mandated by law. The eVital improvements program is a key component of the agency’s modernization program and is in direct support of the NYC mayoral imperative to provide services that are more secure and user friendly.

We are setting up inter-connected Kanban systems for 15 teams, 4 value streams, and for the overall corporate strategy to give the CEO a birds-eye view of the big picture; tying strategic objectives directly to execution and establishing flow-based metrics while encouraging innovation at every level.