Transforming Performance Review and Career Planning
Application Design and Development
We reimagined and digitized a 40-year-old promotion board process used by thousands of the Air Force's enlisted airmen and civilian employees
The Challenge
Reimagining a 40-year-old process for the digital age
The Air Force’s Personnel division turned to Isobar to design a better system for facilitating their annual performance reviews. Their old paper- and folder-based process had long since become a monumental challenge to manage across different commands and continents.
50%+ time savings in performance review preparation
The Results
We recreated a virtual version of the Air Force’s “three stack” convention, making document review and performance rating as simple as a few clicks, greatly speeding up the review process. Around this, we added administrative capabilities to vastly improve the board- and ballot-assignment and document-management processes.
In addition, we developed a streamlined promotion system that featured flexible document review options allowing each reviewer to customize their experience as well as a career planning feature offers the ability to place candidates in needed schooling or other training. The new system, Electronic Board Operations Support System (eBOSS), quickly became the standard-bearer in the USAF for the benefits of user-focused design.
50%+ time savings in performance review preparation
Services Used
Technology Used
- AWS Beanstalk and RDS (SQLServer)
- Jenkins
- Tomcat
- SpringBoot
- CloudFormation
