Agile Development

Agile Development

We have been practicing Agile for over 10 years. Our Agile methodology approach ensures software development requirements and solutions evolve through the collaborative effort of self-organizing, cross-functional teams and their customers and/or end users. We advocate adaptive planning, evolutionary development, early delivery, and continuous improvement and encourage rapid and flexible response to change. As competition continues to increase and time to production continues to shrink, and as more companies make a shift to a digital workplace that is highly dependent on speed, flexibility and increased productivity, Agile methodologies are becoming increasingly necessary.

  • An iterative process provides early insight into issues and provides the ability to address them in a timely manner.
  • Easy to get a clear picture of where you are in the project, based on the User Story Acceptance and when using Agile at Scale, the Planning Increments (PIs) are effective to work directly with the team members to get their feedback on issues and concerns.
  • Learning: by fostering scrums team members to work across multiple scrum teams, focused on different aspects of the program, you build in redundancy and empathy for what other scrum teams face on a daily basis.


Effectively applied, Agile methodologies help businesses stay on budget and on schedule while maintaining the flexibility to adapt to changing market conditions. It also offers the ability to quickly adapt to potential changes in requirements, timelines, business priorities, or client preferences. Plans and timelines are continuously evaluated and adjusted based on real data and requirements can be tweaked to incorporate user feedback and/or changes in the market.

We believe in supporting developers and teams to deliver a better product, in a faster manner, through short, iterative, interactive sessions/sprints. In the era of digital transformation, Agile is a perfect fit for organizations looking to transform how they manage projects and operate as a whole. Agile can help ensure company-wide process and methodological alignment and provides increased flexibility, better productivity, and higher quality deliverables. It also greatly reduces the risk of missed objectives while increasing stakeholder engagement and satisfaction.

At this point in Information Technology, Government agencies are making the hard decision to move away from legacy infrastructures and their large investment of time and dollars to a cloud-based infrastructure. This migration takes knowledge, experience and a passion for customer service to ensure a smooth transition with minimal impact to the organization.

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Cloud Migration for General Services Administration (GSA)
Cloud Migration for General Services Administration (GSA)
Subcontractor to Orizon
PRIME
The program was a Lotus Domino Application Infrastructure Migration to Salesforce.com
  • Project Management support and leadership.
  • Help Desk instantiation and management.
  • Developed the FAS Enterprise Domino (FEDS) Helpdesk to standardize the application development and support.
  • Consisted of Tiers 1-4 with a mix of developers and administrators.  
  • Application development included simple leave request databases to Acquisition Workload Management applications.
  • Tasked with the Migration of the legacy Lotus Domino Application base (30+) to a cloud-based Software as a Service solution (SaaS), Salesforce.
  • Developed & maintained the continuity of operations (COOP) policy & procedures for the National Capital Region Archive Solution, IBM Commonstore.
  • New Application Development adhered to 508 Compliance Standards and the NIST SP 800-53 P security standards.
  • Supported over 5000 users.
  • Received letter of recommendation from the FAS CIO Chief of Staff to submit to the SBA when pursuing our 8A.

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General Services Administration (GSA) Assisted Acquisition Services Business Systems (AASBS)
General Services Administration (GSA) Assisted Acquisition Services Business Systems (AASBS)
Subcontractor to TechFlow Inc.
PRIME
The Assisted Acquisition Services Business Systems provides Federal agencies with a wide variety of information technology and professional service solutions to include acquisition services.
  • We provide Agile Project Mgmt work on the AASBS programs that supports GSA/FAS.
  • We work with project stakeholders to define Product Backlog & identify business results.
  • Represent the team, works with and engages internal and external stakeholders as needed. Demonstrates knowledge and understanding of the client’s goals and their business environment. Provides leadership and guidance to the client and the TechFlow project team.
  • We develop clear goals to communicate the product vision at the beginning of every release cycle and sprint so that the team understands and is equipped to realize it.
  • We drive business decisions and clearly communicates requirements through epics and user stories so they are understood.
  • Communicates status outside the team using application lifecycle management tools such as version one.
  • We create, maintain, prioritize and sequence the product backlog based on business value or ROI. Works with the Program’s Product Owner to incorporate into the Program product backlog.
  • Perform Salesforce Administrative work.

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Department of Labor (DOL)
Department of Labor (DOL)
Employment and Training Administration (ETA)
PRIME
Training, Technical Assistance, Communications and outreach
  • Provide training, curriculum development, technical assistance and analytics in support of the ETA.
  • Nationwide classroom Training delivered.
  • Managed multiple portals, websites and blogs to keep the older worker population up to speed on training and regulations.
  • Provided Project Management.
  • Working with the DOL/ETA National Office and regional Federal Project Officers (FPOs) in identifying substantive areas where training and/or technical assistance is most needed.
  • Assisting SCSEP grantees with improving performance including training in developing partnerships with employers, government agencies, and other entities, employer/business engagement, and collaborating with the public workforce system.

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Air Force Program Executive Office for Combat and Mission Support (AFPEO/CM) Decision Support.
Air Force Program Executive Office for Combat and Mission Support (AFPEO/CM) Decision Support.
Sole-Sourced 8a contract
PRIME
04/2018
Provide technical and analytical support services and products, to include personnel, material, and services.

Provide support for the Service Management Tool (SMT) and end to end lifecycle software  development, enhancement and modernizations support.

  • Comprehensive database administration and maintenance.
  • Quality data integrity checks and data cleansing.
  • Strategic development for requirements capture, data and analysis reporting.
  • Acquisition support for the Air Force District of Washington AFDW/PK Contract organization.
  • Recommend business solutions for AFDW/PK day-to-day challenges. This entails analyzing and reviewing all applicable polices, FAR/AFFARS and DFARS references, regulations and guidance that support the Contracting Officer’s vital decision-making on requirement packages and policy level contract reviews.
  • Leverage standard/repeatable processes that enable us to effectively mentor and advise senior and junior level staff as required through the end to end procurement life-cycle.

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Leidos Department of Defense of Veterans Affairs – Infrastructure Operations Services Support (IOSS)
Leidos Department of Defense of Veterans Affairs – Infrastructure Operations Services Support (IOSS)
Sub Small Business 8a
PRIME
05/2018
The program provides security, architecture, application management, service desk and command center support to the VA.

PM Solutions provided 9 FTE’s to support help desk level support and technical writing in Texas and West Virginia.    

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Leidos Department of Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) Program
Leidos Department of Defense Healthcare Management System Modernization (DHMSM) Program
Sub Small Business 8a
PRIME
05/2018
The EHR System will replace MHS legacy clinical systems including, but not limited to, the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology (AHLTA), Composite Health Care System (CHCS), and most components of the Theater Medical Information Program-Joint (TMIP-J). When implemented, the EHR System will provide access to authoritative clinical data sources, and over time become the authoritative source of clinical data to support improved population health, patient safety, and quality of care to maximize medical readiness for the DoD.

PM Solutions provided support in the engineering group, specifically HL7.

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Cerner Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
Cerner Veterans Affairs (VA) Electronic Health Record Modernization (EHRM)
First Tier Sub Small Business 8a
PRIME
05/2018
The Contractor shall provide, host and deploy EHRM across the VA enterprise including the following areas: project management, change management, training, testing, deployment services, sustainment and other solutions encompassing the entire range of EHR requirements, to include hosting, software, and hardware incidental to the solution. The Contractor shall develop and maintain interfaces as required to meet EHRM solution requirements. The Contractor shall deploy EHRM to all VA Medical Centers (VAMCs), Outpatient Clinics and other approved users of VA EHR functionality. The Consolidated Mail Outpatient Pharmacies (CMOPs) will have access to the EHRM. The Contractor shall support the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) revenue cycle reporting, business intelligence, data analysis and new employee/continuing education training activities and system optimization. EHRM capabilities will also be deployed to Veteran Benefits Administration (VBA) facilities and/or to support other VA use cases as required.

PM Solutions was specifically tasked to help provide Program Management leadership as well as standard SDLC support such as Project Managers, Tech Writers and Business Analysts in support of the VA EHRM Deployment.
We have been awarded work under Task orders:

  • TO 1
  • TO 5
  • TO 6
  • TO 8

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Air Force Medical Readiness Agency (AFMRA) Chief Health Informatics Office Support (CHIO)
Air Force Medical Readiness Agency (AFMRA) Chief Health Informatics Office Support (CHIO)
Sole-Sourced 8a contract
PRIME
09/2019
Air Force Medical Readiness Agency’s (AFMRA) Chief Health Informatics Officer (CHIO) seeks advisory, assistance, and systems integration with Cerner software solutions support to provide strategic, technical, clinical informatics, administrative and program management across four strategic task areas.
  • Area one (1) task one, requires enterprise level technical program management support.
  • Area two (2) task two requires developing strategy, planning, and implementing the overall strategic goals for the optimal use of informatics and IMIT solutions.
  • Area three (3) (Tasks 3 and 4) requires Clinical Informatics experts to accomplish tasks in direct support of the Air Force Medical Service's (AFMS) implementation and adoption of electronic health records.
  • Area four (4) task five requires provide assistance and support services to the CHIO and the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the AFMS.

We provided AFMRA CHIO support in project management, subject matter expertise, and systems analysis support to the CTO, MTFs, and MAJCOMs. To include supporting large scale initiatives in accordance with (IAW) business improvement and reengineering activities including organizational development and process modernization efforts supporting coordination of MHS and AF initiatives.

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