#412 TACFI Milestone 1 Delivered

This week, we received payment for our the delivery of our first TACFI milestone for the U.S. Department of Defense, Platform One.

Earlier this year, Parabol was awarded a special contract to deliver enhancements to our application called a TACFI—short for “Tactical Funding Increase”, aimed at better supporting the types of missions conducted by personnel working for the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD). Over the years, as members and contractors of the U.S. military have been using Parabol, we’ve received feedback highlighting additional use cases and requests. One such use case focused on how cyber professionals handle incidents.

Within the DoD, the use of Mattermost and Mattermost Playbooks is becoming increasingly common for secure communications. While Parabol already has a Mattermost integration, we received several suggestions along the lines of, “Hey, wouldn’t it be cool if Mattermost users could easily send bits of information while responding to an incident or executing a mission playbook, in order to later debrief and conduct a postmortem on how well that incident or mission went?”

Last month, we finalized our designs and product specification to enhance our Mattermost integration and deliver this capability completing our first milestone. This week, we began implementing it. We’re excited to bring this feature not only to the DoD but to all our users. Stay tuned for more updates!

The number of meetings ran showed nearly 17% more activity than the week prior; following the summer vacation season folks are definitely “back to school” and back at work.

…led a session with the Washington State Association of County Officials on giving and receiving feedback delivered by our CEO Jordan Husney.

…made excellent progress on continuing our migration away from RethinkDB to Postgres. We hope to conclude this migration by the end of this development cycle.

…began designing some of the process changes for how we do pre-sales user success on the growth team.

…demonstrate hold a demo session between members of the product team. We’re at the midway mark in Cycle 4, demonstrating work in progress allows us to get feedback from each other and keep up momentum.