*RFO0094* *Project Title: Annual Audits for Criminal History System Replacement *
*Categories: Program/Project Management and Analyst (Team) * *St. Paul, MN* *1+ Year contract* *Project Environment * The Criminal History System is being delivered under a contract with The Boeing Company out of their offices in Herndon, VA. Agency staff is responsible to define the business processes and requirements and Boeing is responsible for development of the customizations of their product. The Project uses an Agile-based methodology. The selected contractor will assess the integrated development team with Boeing staff and agency staff and contract staff. *Project Resources include: * Five business analysts at the BCA site; One Boeing systems engineer; Four BCA subject matter experts: Approximately eight technical and development combined staff from the agency and Boeing; One senior project manager; One deputy project manager; One Boeing Project manager, Various other management and support staff. The Project organizational structure is based on Agile Scrum cross functional team principles. The agency staff proficiency levels and experience with Agile methodology varies. The Boeing team has extensive experience using Agile. The agency project manager is the project lead. The contract with Boeing will be available for review by the audit team. The contract is fixed price and fixed duration with a defined set of requirements and deliverables. The agency and Boeing teams are developing user stories that implement the business processes associated with the requirements. There are 32 sprints anticipated for the project, each sprint is 4 weeks. Sprint 9 began July 13, 2015. Boeing QA staff test user story. The Agency QA staff selectively repeats the story level testing, but primarily performs integration testing and coordinates user testing. Requirements The audit scope includes the entire CHS project. The audit will address the following questions: 1. Is the project team managing the project with a reasonable expectation to achieve the required outcomes in the required timeframe? 2. Are there significant risks uncovered by the audit that could jeopardize project success? The contractor is not required to review all project documents, plans, and deliverables as part of this audit. If the contractor desires to review a sample of documents and project communications they will be made available upon request *Guidelines and expectations for the audit and audit process include the following: * Audit should be non-intrusive as far as possible; Audit should not trigger creation of for-Auditor-only documents by the project team; The audit should span an entire 4 week sprint to include assessment of all applicable rituals at minimum; To execute an approved audit process; As part of the audit, the Auditor or audit team may participate in rituals as a silent observer; Auditor or audit team should minimize formal audit meetings with the team members. The audit team may seek clarifications from ScrumMaster/Project Manager and/or Product Owner as needed during the audit; Auditors will prepare the audit report recording their observations, findings and recommendations against the approved audit plan; Prepare a clear report that describes the factors assessed, findings, and recommendations; Present the report in person to the project team and management for review and approval; The Audit Report is finalized only after taking into account the team’s feedback; Contractor will provide the final report in both electronic and printed formats *Thanks* *Amanpreet Singh * *Direct:* 703-348-2871 *Fax: *703-722-6628 *Email:* [email protected] *Elegant Enterprise-Wide Solutions, Inc * We Participate in E-Verify An SBA 8(a), ISO 9001:2008 Company *Prime on GSA Schedule 70, 8(a) STARS II, eFAST, Seaport-e & many State/Local Contracts *http://www.elegantsolutions.us -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "US_IT.Groups" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/us_itgroups. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
