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IV&V Services
These services help agencies and organizations ensure the expected outcomes, work products, and expectations meet the original needs and specifications as well as ensuring that progress is being met as effectively and efficiently and in accordance to the plan. We investigate the performance and risks based on standards and best practices in the industry. In order to ensure that we verify and validate, we first seek to understand or potentially refine or build the appropriate requirements for the system as well as establish or refine the appropriate practices and processes to ensure we maximize the utilization of an outsourced provider or team that is responsible for systems development. These practices and processes can range from requirements elicitation and management, change management, quality management, and systems deployment. If approached correctly, IV&V is a reliable and trusted way to ensure that the system is being developed as per requirements, the system is reliable, and built with sound engineering practices. This will enable that we are maximizing utilization and productivity and thereby minimizing costs of the outsource provider or development team.
Our engagement begins with an assessment of system or product life cycle to which the solution will be built. This includes a review of various project artifacts that include items such as project charter, project plans, business case, requirements document, test plan, and configuration management plan. The engagement would also involve interviews with various project sponsors, stakeholders, and key members of the project team. During the engagement we will refine our understanding, validate our findings, and focus on identifying improvements and solutions to increase project success, minimize risks, and project costs. We would provide any missing or updated project artifact and assist in refining, repairing, or building components of the system or product life cycle.