What We Do

The IV&V Group focuses on one core competency – independent verification and validation (IV&V).  Services provided range from the establishment of enterprise-level capability within an organization to the execution of assessments that support IT Portfolio Management and organizational system development efforts.  The support of system development efforts encompass any development lifecycle and contains assessment tasks within five categories — management and support, engineering practices and products, testing activities, reviews and audits, and processes and procedures.  All assessments are executed against current versions of IEEE Std 12207 and IEEE Std 15288 along with all relevant supporting standards.  Assessments also may be executed against organization or project specific standards.  The IV&V Group may receive a task to generate an independent verification and validation plan that describes which IV&V services will be performed and how they will be performed, as well as how the IV&V effort will be managed.  This plan will be based on the current version of IEEE Std 1012.  The use of IEEE standards allows the federal agencies to conform to OMB Circular 119(R) and allows other organizations to support their CMM, CMMI and ISO processes.

Depending on the specific needs of the client we might do one or more of the following:

• Review the draft or final request-for-proposal
• Review the draft requirements
• Review supplier/developer documentation
  • system requirements
  • system requirements allocation document
  • design document
  • project management plan
  • configuration management plan
  • quality assurance plan
  • test plans and other test documentation
• Participate in milestone reviews
• Witness testing
• Generate an IV&V Plan

The client receives a written report documenting our findings. All of our
reviews are based  on IEEE Standards and your approved project standards.