Independent Verification and Validation

30 Mar

SO YOU WANT A CMMC CERTIFICATION (PART FOUR)

PART FOUR: The IV&V Group® is preparing to meet the requirements imposed by the CMMC. We are a sub-contractor for a number of federal government contracts. As we make our own way through the CMMC requirements we hope that our understandings, as illustrated below, will help others with th...

22:41 / Blog / Eva freund

Tagged with: CMMC ,CMMC Practices ,cyber security ,cybersecurity ,The IV&V Group ,

23 Mar

SO YOU WANT A CMMC CERTIFICATION (PART THREE:)

PART THREE: This second part of our blog describes what artifacts your organizations needs to have in place. The specific artifacts will be determined by the CMMC level your organization wants to achieve. Level 1: At this level there are no required processes and it is up to the organizati...

15:28 / Blog / Eva freund

Tagged with: CMMC ,CMMC Documentation ,cyber security ,NIST SP 800-171 ,

21 Mar

SO YOU WANT A CMMC CERTIFICATION (PART TWO:)

The IV&V Group® is preparing to meet the requirements imposed by CMMC. We are a sub-contractor for a number of federal government contracts. As we make our own way through the CMMC requirements we hope that our understandings, as illustrated below, will help others with their understanding....

23:01 / Blog / Uncategorized / Eva freund

Tagged with: CMMC ,CMMC Practices ,cybersecurity ,federal contracting ,The IV&V Group ,

17 Mar

SO YOU WANT TO BE CMMC CERTIFIED !

PART ONE: CMMC stands for Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification. Shortly, all federal agencies, not just the Department of Defense (DoD), will require that their contractors be CMMC certified. And if you are a federal government contractor some of your sub-contractors also may have to be...

18:16 / Blog / Uncategorized / Eva freund

Tagged with: CMMC ,cyber security ,NIST SP 800-171 ,

30 Apr

Who Does What?

There is a perfect alignment of people and tasks in the hypothetical Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) project. It is in this project that neither dollars nor labor categories are restricted. However most projects are in the real and not the hypothetical world. Real world project...

18:01 / Blog / Eva freund

Tagged with: IEEE Std 1012 ,Project Management ,software development ,Software Engineering ,The IV&V Group ,Verification and Validation ,

11 Mar

BEHIND THE CORRECT DOOR

An earlier blog described the Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) that one expects to find behind the correct door. This blog describes the skills and experience to expected from someone who claims to be an IV&V specialist. The verification and validation processes are technical p...

20:04 / Blog / Uncategorized / Eva freund

Tagged with: consensus standards ,engineering documentation ,Independent Verification and Validation ,life cycle phases ,The IV&V Group ,Verification and Validation ,

11 Feb

Which Door Will You Choose?

You may have seen the television program where the contestant had a chance to walk away with a GRAND prize but only if they opened the right door. For most contestants the door they selected revealed a small and rather minor prize. For the very few who selected the correct door, the prize ranged fr...

22:15 / Blog / Eva freund

Tagged with: acquiring IV&V ,Independent Verification and Validation ,IV&V ,IV&V value ,The IV&V Group ,Verification and Validation ,voluntary consensus standards ,

31 Jan

Better than Hope!

Do not hope that your software or system project and its related documentation are on track. Do not wait until your software or system project fails in the test phase to learn that it has not been on track. Instead trust independent verification and validation (IV&V) to provide continuous obje...

16:05 / Blog / Eva freund

Tagged with: Eva Freund ,IEEE ,Independent Verification and Validation ,test documentation ,The IV&V Group ,Verification and Validation ,voluntary consensus standards ,

23 Jan

Don’t Pay Twice!

There are still Federal agencies that continue to rely on the Development Contractor to also perform all testing ranging from the smallest component to the full system. The inherent weakness in this process is that for the Development Contractor the primary objective is to deliver enough functionali...

19:45 / Blog / Uncategorized / Eva freund

Tagged with: development activities ,system engineering ,test activities ,The IV&V Group ,

14 Jan

THE NEW IEEE STD. 1012-2016 IS AVAILABLE

The new IEEE Std. 1012 is the largest standard offered by IEEE and may soon be available through ISO. It is considered to be the most popular IEEE standard and it has been purchased by persons around the globe. This version of the standard is a revision to IEEE Std. 1012-2012. It contains no ne...

21:05 / Blog / Non-Government Standards News / Eva freund

Tagged with: best practices ,IEEE Std 1012 ,Independent Verification and Validation ,IV&V ,The IV&V Group ,voluntary consensus standards ,