The document discusses the top 7 benefits of using a shared services model for agile and application lifecycle management (ALM) success. It provides an example of how Sandia National Laboratories addressed challenges around disparate ALM solutions, source code management, and IT modernization by standardizing on a single ALM platform and creating a shared services group to support development teams. The top 7 benefits achieved included saving time and improving productivity, obtaining cost savings, decreasing legal fees, obtaining economies of scale, driving efficiency, providing high-quality applications, and accelerating speed to market.

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Top 7 Benefits
Using a Shared Services Model for Agile
and ALM Success
Chris Nimmer - Federal Director, CollabNet
NLIT Summit 2014 – San Francisco
July 1, 2014

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What We’ll Cover Today
• Leveraging the “Shared Services” model
• Sandia National Laboratories case study
• Top seven benefits of using a Shared Services Model

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What is a Shared Services Model

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Sandia Labs – Real World Scenario
• Sandia Corporation operates Sandia National Laboratories as a
contractor for the U.S. Department of Energy’s National
Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA)
• Supports numerous federal, state and local government
agencies, companies and organizations
• Operated and managed by Sandia Corporation, a wholly
owned subsidiary of Lockheed Martin Corporation

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The Challenges
• Alleviate the need for individual development teams to
research and purchase disparate Agile ALM solutions
• Needed a solution that was approved to run on multiple
Sandia networks
• Centralized management for source code management was a
key requirement
• Keep pace with new IT modernization challenges around three
key themes of: Transform, Protect
and Advance
• Enable them the ability to move into the
Cloud when ready

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How Did Sandia Solve the Challenges?
• They did this by standardizing on a single ALM platform
o Reduced duplication of efforts for code and document management
o Consolidated SVN and Git camps into central location to ensure the date for DR planning
o Consolidated IT software and resources thus reducing overall costs and improving
efficiencies
o Enables then to be “Cloud ready”
• Sandia now has a Shared Services Group
within its IT department that supports
development teams internally and can be
extended beyond non-NNSA groups
• Provides common software tools
(databases, ALM applications and
platform options, etc.)

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Single ALM Platform
Site Organization
Role-based Access Controls
Associating Related IP
Project Templates

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Top 7 Benefits Achieved
1. Saved time and improved productivity
2. Obtained cost savings with a volume
discount agreement
3. Decreased legal fees with a multi-year
agreement
4. Obtained economies of scale
5. Drove efficiency throughout the
organization
6. Provided high-quality applications to
development teams
7. Accelerated speed to market of quality
software products
“Shared development
and code re-use is a
great effectiveness
and efficiency
opportunity. The DoE
does not want to
reinvent the wheel.”
- Bob Brese, CIO,
Department of
Energy

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Review and prioritize your organizations challenges:
• Ungoverned code / repositories
• Security / compliance risks
• Lack of collaboration and reuse
• Currently operate in a “Silo of Excellence” approach and want
to drive more Cloud “shared services”
• Budget reductions
• Shadow IT
• Lack of standardization
• Ability to attract and keep key IT personnel
How to Start the Process

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Q&A
Thank You
Top 7 Benefits
Using a Shared Services Model
for Agile and ALM Success
presented by Chris Nimmer
cnimmer@collab.net
July 1, 2014
Please visit CollabNet at Booth 707
“Departments and agencies need to continue to enhance the shared development
and shared security information sharing programs and processes. Whether you’re
talking security or software development.”
- Bob Brese, CIO, Department of Energy