United States Airforce

In 2020 Ariel, received a Federal prime award with the Air Force Life Cycle Management Center (AFLCMC) Business and Enterprise Systems (BES) Directorate to provide Jira Training to personnel in the Randolph, Wright-Patterson, and Gunter Annex Air Force Bases.  BES is rolling out the Atlassian products suite as part of their initiative to transform their organization by adopting Agile and DevOps practices.   Ariel created 36 hours of highly interactive custom training material, supported by a thoughtfully configured Jira instance encompassing several simulated projects having with over four months of highly-realistic data.  Ariel has trained over a 1000 Air Force personnel in Jira Fundamentals and Advanced Jira features.  Ariel’s hands-on training has reinforced Agile principles and demonstrated best practices for Jira, as well as pointed out common pitfalls to avoid. These training courses were specifically designed to guide students through a number of different scenarios covering the diverse needs of a large organization like BES, including Scrum, Kanban, scaled and hybrid approaches.