Independent Verification and Validation

27 Aug

Penny Wise and Really Pound Foolish

It is not news that the State of Maryland has fired its prime contractor for the health registry that it was building instead of using the federal registry (healthcare.gov). What is news is how much this has cost the taxpayers of Maryland. According to the board of the Maryland Heal...

21:21 / Blog / StaffIVV

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22 Aug

Agile and IV&V Working Together

The Federal government is transitioning more and more projects to Agile development methodologies. Agile’s success with commercial projects has led to greater adoption of Agile in the Federal Government. The move to Agile poses a number of challenges for government agencies. Government agencies ne...

23:03 / Blog / White Papers / StaffIVV

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21 Aug

IV&V Made Easy

The IV&V Group®, a woman-owned small business, has made it easy for you to purchase our IV&V services. Now you can purchase an IV&V assessment for your critical process or your critical document with the same ease as acquiring office supplies. Contact us and place an order for eithe...

21:13 / Blog / StaffIVV

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19 Aug

The Directive Model

The IV&V Group® has identified four models to implement the OMB directive to use voluntaryconsensus standards (Circular A-119). Today we will examine the directive model. In the directive model the CIO or other high ranking official determines that is advantageous for the agency to ado...

21:43 / Blog / StaffIVV

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15 Aug

Federal Dollars for IV&V

In this fiscal year the Federal Government spent $45.2 million dollars on 86 contract transactions for independent verification and validation (IV&V) services. The vehicles used to make these purchases were: Definitive Contracts ($34.8 million); Delivery Orders ($7.1 million); Purchase...

17:49 / Blog / StaffIVV

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15 Aug

What Does A Process Assessment Require?

Do you want to make your critical business decisions based on someone's 'gut' feeling or do you want to make your critical decisions based on objective evidence. If you want objective evidence then you want The IV&V Group's Critical Process Assessment Services©. These services are designed...

17:27 / Blog / StaffIVV

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06 Aug

If You Have No Budget for IV&V?

Are you one of those people who believe that you have to have a large development budget in order to retain a provider of independent verification (IV&V) services? Or are you one of those who believes that you have to execute an IV&V methodology throughout the entire development life cycle -...

15:06 / Blog / StaffIVV

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