POV Timeline & Schedule

Contrast POVs typically consist of the following stages:

  • Planning
  • Kickoff and implementation
  • (Optional) Integrations
  • POV wrap-up and summary

The following ia recommended POV schedule:

  • 1-2 weeks prior to the target POV start date (1 hour)
    • Planning and scoping of POV
    • Completed the POV scoping form
    • Confirm involvement and engagement of development teams for the targeted evaluation application(s)
    • Confirm planned POV start date
  • On the POV start date (1-2 hours)
    • Kickoff with a review of the POV success criteria and POV schedule
    • Instrument your target evaluation application(s) and onboard them into Contrast
    • Begin to exercise your application(s) via automated testing or manually navigating through your application(s)
    • Brief review of any initial results
  • At least weekly after POV start, preferably twice a week (1-2 hours)
    • Meet with your Contrast account team to review results
    • Gather results data to inclusion in the executive wrap-up presentation
    • Review POV success criteria and outstanding tasks
    • Continue to exercise your application(s)
  • At the conclusion of the POV (1 hour)
    • Conduct the executive wrap-up meeting with your management, key stakeholders, and other decision-makers

Timeline and Milestones

The following is an example outline of planned meetings, milestone activities, and required participants to conduct a POV.

Planning

During the planning phase, we will would like to answer the following four questions to make sure we are aligned well with your objectives:

  • What would you like to prove?
  • How would you like to prove it?
  • Who will be involved within the evaluation?
  • What other vendors are you considering?

Here is a recommended schedule for the planning phase:

Topic Required Participants Estimated Time
Introductions Development, Operations, and Security 15 minutes
Verify Technical Fit Development, Operations, and Security 15 minutes
Demo (if necessary) Development, Operations, and Security 30 minutes
Application & Integration Identification Development, Operations, and Security 15 minutes
Establish Initial Success Criteria Development, Operations, and Security 15 minutes

Kickoff and Implementation

During the kickoff stage, we want to make sure the POV participants are able to access and are comfortable with the Contrast platform as well as adding security telemetry to your application.

Topic Required Participants Estimated Time
Onboarding Development, Operations, and Security 45 minutes
Review Success Criteria Development, Operations, and Security 15 minutes
Demo & How-to Development, Operations 30 minutes
Implementation Development, Operations 60 minutes
Usage & Results Review Development, Operations, and Security 30 minutes

Optional Integrations

If it is required, during the integration stage, we will work together on creating the necessary connections between your existing tools and Contrast to allow for security to be a seamless part of your daily work.

Topic Required Participants Estimated Time
Implement or Demo Required Integrations Development, Operations, and Security TBD

POV Wrap-Up and Summary

As part of the POV, we will work collectively with your team to establish and develop a summary presentation

Topic Required Participants Estimated Time
Summarize/document Contrast benefits Development, Operations, and Security 120 minutes