Quality Assurance Program

1t Technologies employs an established Quality Assurance (QA)/Quality Control (QC) approach that is built into every project from its inception, ensuring our team meets or exceeds requirements and surpasses DHS’ expectations. 1t Technologies QA/QC management is enabled through compliance ISO 9001:2008 continuous process improvement and our CMMI/Dev ML 5 program, meaning that the process we use to develop products and services has been externally appraised as "Optimizing." Inherent in this organizational distinction is the notion that the overarching, guiding process we use to select, develop, track, monitor, and manage each individual development project is defined, quantitatively managed, and continuously optimized.

The 1t Technologies team achieves results far superior to generally acknowledged industry averages for schedule, cost, and quality performance, delivering the following key benefits for all projects:

•   Agile High Velocity Development software practices for development, maintenance, and modernization appraised at CMMI Maturity Level 5

•   Accurate weekly status reporting using ANSI 748 compliant Earned Value Management System (EVMS)

•   Dramatic reduction of cyber security incidents caused by poor quality software code

•   Significant reductions (more than 50%) in software operations and maintenance (O&M) costs

•   Ability to reallocate O&M funding to new features and enhancements (due to code 'bug' reduction in production software)

Each TOs QA/QC plan will be tailored to the size, scope, complexity, and duration of the project. The first step in assuring QA/QC at the TO level is to assess the TO to determine what quality assurance and quality control processes (peer reviews, inspections, and testing) should be applied. Each TO will be assessed using the information provided by DHS, including the:

•   Importance – Significance to the DHS mission,

•   Complexity – Difficulties and intricacies of the project, and

•   Risk – What is the risk to the mission and any impacts to the TO.

From this assessment, 1t Technologies determines and tailors the quality assurance/quality control to the task order.