Reducing project risk related to technical risks, schedule risks, and budget risks is the best way to work with a constricted budget. The use of independent verification and validation using voluntary consensus standards provide a way for doing this. In former posts I have described a number of m...

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...