Notice ID: 36C10B21Q0501
The Department of Veterans Affairs Office of Development, Security and Operations (DevSecOps) Agile Center of Excellence (ACOE) has a requirement for a pilot enterprise Program Increment (PI) Planning tool for use in Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe). PI planning is a cadence-based, usually face-to-face event that aligns all the teams on the Agile Release Train (ART) to a shared mission and vision. PI Planning has a standard agenda that includes a presentation of business context and vision, followed by team planning breakouts – where the teams create their Iteration plans and objectives for the upcoming PI. A successful PI Planning event delivers two primary outputs – committed PI objectives and a program board.
VA ACOE requires the purchase of a PI Planning tool – Rentouch’s PIPlanning.io or equivalent. This tool includes 245 licenses, on-premises, premium support for 245 teams, installation services and end user support services. Premium-level support includes installation and end user support services. Installation services include installation and configuration of the PI planning tool to a production level. These services also include integration with an Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tool. End user support services consists of live support available during business hours to all users of the product. Licenses are sold “per team” and a team is defined as a group of 5-9 people, the ideal being 7. The vendor must provide dedicated premium-level support with coverage available between 6:00am – 7:00pm Eastern Time. For a complete list of requirements please see below.
The contractor shall provide, install, support and maintain the PI Planning software or equivalent that meets the following Salient Characteristics:
SALIENT CHARACTERISTICS
- whiteboard capability with colored sticky notes for different teams.
- Graphical User Interface (GUI) must be intuitive.
- able to handle up to 600 concurrent users either onsite or in distributed teams.
- must support a “big picture” Kanban board to virtually “walk the walls.”
- must have backup/recovery features.
- must have an enterprise licensing model.
- must support several iterations of varying durations.
- must be able to support identification of the team to attend the event.
- must have the ability to create breakout room sessions.
- must have the ability to read other team boards without additional permissions.
- must allow for role-based permissions.
- must offer an integrated program risk board.
- must provide visual representation of tasks to meet feature delivery.
- must allow for creation of milestones….
