Private industry and government agencies share the need to create more with less money. One way they are filling this need is by taking advantage of technology that provides platforms, operating systems and software applications "as a service." This allows them to pay only for what they actually use...

You know that your client does not want to spend money for Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) or the client believes IV&V is not warranted.  Maybe there are things you are already doing that might fall under the umbrella of V&V.  These same things might well fall under you...

It was many years ago that an important project would hire an independent contractor to provide a full range of verification and validation (V&V) services. These services might begin with an assessment of the requirements prior to the issuance of a request for proposal for development of a syste...

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...

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 -...

  I have lost count of the number of solicitations in this year alone where the title of the solicitation does not match the work in form, fit or function.  Here is an example of what I have found. The title of the solicitation whether it be a Request For Information (RFI), a Request for...

This is the fifth and final installment of a series that will help you articulate what you want when you order IV&V Services. To help organizations ask for the services they want The IV&V Group® has developed a taxonomy of IV&V services. It contains only five categoeries of IV&V ...