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Welcome to the Party Bus DevSecOps PaaS ​

Your comprehensive guide to maximizing the potential of our platform

Overview ​

Welcome to the documentation hub for our state-of-the-art DevSecOps platform. Use this document to help you navigate and harness the full power of Party Bus, ensuring your development, security, and operations processes are seamlessly integrated and highly efficient.

What Does Success Look Like? ​

Success looks like you, as a Party Bus customer, having a streamlined experience for deploying, securing, and operating your application in production. The CtF is a crucial aspect of operating your application with the proper DoW authorization. Much of the time and effort spent with Party Bus is spent scanning tools and modifying code to comply with our security standards. Using Party Bus Test Drive is a best practice to achieve success with the scanning process.

Roles and Responsibilities ​

During this journey, there are things you are responsible for, and there are things we are responsible for. The RACI chart (below) shows the division of labor. It is important to understand the tasks that the Party Bus team expects you to complete. This also provides some insight into how other P1 teams are involved.

RACI

Service Level Agreements ​

SLAs are the standards we hold ourselves to for the services we provide and the timeliness of our assistance with your requests. Please view our SLA pages here:

If you identify a case where an SLA has been missed, please bring it to our attention. If there are circumstances where we cannot meet an SLA, we will communicate that in advance. However, these situations should be the exception, not the norm.

Terms and Conditions ​

The T&Cs represent the agreement your government leadership accepted when joining the Party Bus PaaS. By submitting funding, your leadership agreed that your team would comply with these terms. Please review them during onboarding, as understanding them is required, and Party Bus enforces them. You can read the T&Cs here:

Our Team ​

As our customer, it’s helpful for you to understand who you’re interacting with. Our Party Bus Value Stream is divided into five sub-teams, each with a crucial role in delivering value to you. Those teams are MDO, CAT, PB Ops, Bullhorn, and CollabTools. A product manager leads each of these sub-teams and reports directly to the Party Bus VSL. The Party Bus VSL has a small leadership team that guides a competent group of engineers, as well as acquisition managers who manage labor and license contracts.

  • MDO: The primary team you interact with as an application DevOps team. They help you set up pipelines and answer questions about your application’s environment.
  • CAT: Party Bus’s internal cyber team. They are responsible for overseeing the CtF process, collecting your BoE, and liaising with our AO. They implement the policy set by our P1 Cyber team.
  • Operations: This team operates and maintains the Party Bus platform. They maintain over 30 crucial services and applications we all depend on, including all CollabTools products.
  • CollabTools: The primary team you interact with when using our CollabTools suite. They implement new features, work alongside our Operations team, and liaise with vendors as needed.
  • Bullhorn: Party Bus’s internal innovation team, “Dog Food” team, and software development team. They develop and maintain several software products and act as our internal application customer team.
  • Leadership: This is a small team that helps with technical roadmaps, strategic engagement, and personnel management.
  • Acquisitions: We don't subscribe to the single prime integrator model. Our contractor workforce is split across several labor contracts, managed by our Acquisitions team. They also manage a plethora of license contracts–all the software you use is made available through a contract between P1 and the vendor. Finally, the Acquisitions team manages the allocation of customer funds across all our contracts and cloud bills.

Party Bus Org Chart

Over time, you may interact with personnel outside the Party Bus Value Stream. For your awareness, here is a basic org chart showing the other P1 value streams. The P1 Materiel Leader leads P1. The P1 organization is the AFLCMC/HNCX branch within the AFMC major command.

Platform One Org Chart

Core Features ​

Product Diagram

Integrations ​

  • Third-Party Tools: Integrations across the various technologies in Party Bus are possible with a request to our MDO team. Many integrations can be achieved with internal routing.
  • API Access: Connections to/from external resources are possible as well. Connecting to DoW servers and data lakes may require us to navigate the process for requesting whitelists from the DISA for the DoDIN IAP and/or BCAP. Please note that while almost always technically possible, these requests take time since they include several external stakeholders. Party Bus has several existing external connections you can leverage quickly, such as Envision, ADVANA, and UDL.

Review our Getting Started documentation for more information on onboarding and related items.

Troubleshooting and Support ​

For common issues and recommended fixes, please review our available documentation first.

  • For pipeline and application support, visit the Party Bus Value Stream Support channel to ask questions or search for previously answered issues. The MDO team actively monitors this channel.
    • When in doubt, submit a ticket to the P1 Help Desk. The IL2 support channel linked above includes helpful portals and resources in the channel header that will help you submit your ticket to the appropriate P1 team.
  • For CollabTools tickets, our P1 Help Desk is the best place to start. If you'd like to message a team member, head over to the Enterprise Collaboration Cowbell Channel .

If these resources do not meet your needs, visit the P1 website to learn about your options for contacting us.

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Feedback ​

Your feedback is invaluable to us. Please share your thoughts and suggestions to help us improve our documentation and platform.

Thank you for choosing our DevSecOps platform, and we look forward to supporting your journey towards a more secure and efficient development process.

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