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14 Jan

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

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...
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02 Dec

It is a myth that Agile does not require documentation. Whether SCRUM, EP, ASD, Pair Programming, or something yet to be invented Agile methodology does require necessary documentation that is developed at the needed level of detail. An agile project likely will have a (1)product backlog, (2) releas...
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Tagged with: Agile ,best practices ,CMMI ,Independent Verification and Validation ,IV&V ,PMI ,quality assurance ,standards-based methodology ,The IV&V Group ,
15 Jul

Not long ago a member of my family stated that it seemed that there were no consequences for failing to do the right thing… especially in the public sector. We were talking about a variety of things ranging from healthcare.gov to the bailout of the banking industry. Within a few weeks of that disc...
20:25 / Blog / Industry News

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02 Jan

There are multiple ways to implement voluntary consensus standards within an organization.  Earlier posts introduced and then described a number of options including the Directive Model, the Project Model and the Consensus Model.  This post will describe the Hybrid Model.  In one organization the...
00:22 / Blog

Tagged with: best practices ,consensus standards ,implement voluntary consensus standards ,models to implement voluntary consensus standards ,software standards ,The IV&V Group ,voluntary consensus standards ,
17 Nov

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...
23:35 / Blog

Tagged with: best practices ,document assessment ,Independent Verification and Validation ,IV&V ,IV&V services ,IV&V value ,process assessment ,Project Management ,requirements elicitation ,The IV&V Group ,Verification and Validation ,
27 Aug

  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...
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Tagged with: acquiring IV&V ,best practices ,Independent Verification and Validation ,IV&V ,IV&V value ,Project Management ,quality assurance ,The IV&V Group ,
15 Aug

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

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