Six practices. One accountable team.

We use agile practices because they deliver value quickly and establish the kind of collaboration we want with clients. Short feedback loops, incremental evidence of progress, and efficiency are why we look for opportunities to apply agile development in new settings and environments.

Development runs in two-week sprints that end in working software you can use, coordinated by a release plan built with your stakeholders. Regular checkpoints and demos show visible progress, gather user feedback, and produce empirical data for planning and risk management. Quality is an expectation of every increment — nothing gets demoed until continuous automated testing passes.

We adjust the technology to your standards and your staff's skill sets, and deploy to cloud or on-premise infrastructure as your environment requires.

Iterative development in two-week cycles strengthens integration projects with demonstrated progress verified by working software. Focused feedback from users and stakeholders keeps the effort aligned with expectations — and keeps vision, mission, and execution aligned over the long term.

We work with clients to define software releases representing logical segments of business functionality, then produce a roadmap and release plan that delivers the complete system in stages. The release plan manages cross-team dependencies; we have experience running agile delivery alongside teams working in waterfall.

Where agile does not fit your organization's practices or regulatory requirements, we deliver using an iterative methodology based on PMBOK and supplemented with tooling we have developed for managing integration projects.

We provide options supported by real user data, so decisions align with your organization's vision and values. That is how an engagement that starts as a transaction grows into a partnership.

We say UX/UI, not UI/UX, deliberately: it signals a commitment to research-based user experience over designs that sell well, look great, and have no connection to your real users. UX begins in the earliest stages of a project — even during planning, early user, client, and stakeholder engagement builds relationships and prevents delays later.

With some creativity, ongoing research can be done with minimal disruption to users. We invite them into a collaborative experience focused on what they want and need and why — valued not just for their interaction with the system, but as members of your organizational ecosystem.

Enterprise architecture is the foundation for strategic planning and the roadmaps that guide implementation. Nebustream differs from other EA firms in that our architects have real project implementation behind them — so the architecture we produce is actionable and returns value quickly.

We call our approach Action Architecture: a clear to-be state answering "what do we want and need," plus transition architectures and implementation plans answering "how will we do it." We use the TOGAF Architecture Development Method adapted for iterative delivery, covering business, information, security, and technology architecture domains, and write playbooks so knowledge transfers to your teams.

In our Health and Human Services practice we bring hands-on experience with MITA 3.0 guidelines — creating architecture that satisfies CMS funding requirements while promoting component reuse and data sharing — and with security architectures subject to HIPAA.

Cloud streamlines the operational overhead that taxes on-premise solutions. Our approach is customized to your solution architecture and technical requirements, drawing on projects spanning migrations, cloud-native application development, and DevOps implementation. Security is assured through FedRAMP services and our record delivering in HIPAA- and CUI-regulated environments.

Our offerings span cloud strategy and planning, architecture, migration services, cloud-native development, and managed services. DevOps accelerates all of it with automation — containerization and infrastructure-as-code reduce both initial migration and ongoing deployment time.

We design and implement full CI/CD pipelines to automate build, test, deploy, and validate. DevSecOps adds static and dynamic code analysis and vulnerability scanning so issues surface before they ship. Technology is only the start: we also help resolve the silos between development and infrastructure that block the cultural change DevOps requires.

Interconnectivity and constituent-facing services improve service delivery — and increase the number and type of threats government entities face. Safeguarding sensitive data and maintaining constituent trust requires a comprehensive information security program and continuous threat mitigation.

Through our focus on government clients we have developed the expertise to keep an information security program effective without obstructing service delivery, including compliance with HIPAA, IRS Publication 1075, DFARS 252.204-7012, and FOCI requirements.

Comprehensive security spans both cybersecurity and software assurance. Within our development and DevOps practices we help clients build controls that secure operations and SwA practices that mitigate application vulnerabilities — delivered through security assessments, software assurance programs, cloud cybersecurity, and penetration testing that simulates both technical attack vectors and social engineering.