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...

While any brand of a 3-prong plug will fit into a 3-prong outlet (assuming both are for the USA market) and USB plugs and ports are standardized so that any mini-USB plug will fit any mini-USB port regardless of the manufacturer, it is amazing to find that there is no standard definition of Independ...

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...

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 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...

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 -...