Independent Verification and Validation

Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) verifies that each step of the product lifecycle meets project standards and industry best practices. It also validates that the work fully meets your business goals and systems requirements. IV&V is an excellent way to make sure your outsource partners are on top of their responsibilities.

Independent Verification and Validation answers two basic questions:

Are you building the system right; and,
Are you building the right system?

IV&V is a valuable checkpoint in the health and lifecycle of a project. Solid quality assurance and risk management requirements will often demand an that independent third party inspect and validate the work being done.

Hyrax International LLC is independent and objective. We are free to help you figure out what is best for your organization, because we do not sell or endorse any one software product or management methodology. This philosophy is the foundation of our IV&V program.

Hyrax International LLC’s comprehensive Independent Verification & Validation process area model. Click image to enlarge.

Why Independent V&V?

The most significant advantage of using an independent party is that the evaluation of work performed is unbiased. There is no hidden agenda, financial motivation, or intellectual attachment to the work product and project. In fact, just the opposite is true: As your IV&V provider, we are placing our reputation on accurate findings.

We’ve learned that IV&V projects require significant, cooperative, and open communication between all involved stakeholders. Such open communication is vital to IV&V efforts that rely heavily on listening to stakeholder goals, seeking critical information, and sharing relevant information between parties. Following this approach, the IV&V process successfully conveys valuable lessons learned that become seeds for future improvement.

Our IV&V Program

Hyrax International LLC offers Independent Verification and Validation services so you can obtain this crucial information in an environment organizationally free from the influence, guidance and control of the development effort. The tasks that we perform for our customers include:

» Business Case Validation	» Test Planning, Execution, Metrics
» Requirements Analysis	» Training Needs Assessment
» Requirements Tracing	» Acceptance Testing
» Milestone Reviews	» Criticality Analysis
» Software Design Analysis	» Independent Assessments
» Metrics Validation	» Compliance Assessment
» Quality Program Validation	» Document Inspection

Hyrax International LLC’s IV&V methodology is based on International standards and widely accepted process bodies of work, such as CMMI, IEEE standards, and ISO standards. Our IV&V process is fully documented and taught as an integral component of our quality assurance related curriculum.

Our IV&V Principles

Make quality a part of the project from its initiation	Insert IV&V into all phases of the product life cycle
Incorporate quality planning as a core part of project activity	Ensure methods identify risks early and often
Ensure quality assurance is applied throughout the product lifecycle	Ensure adequate resources, time, and process is applied to dispose of risks
Deliver consistency, reliability, and repeatability	Aggressively use metrics, trend analysis, and lessons learned to evaluate performance
Improve execution and team coordination through best practices	Keep a focus on problem patterns and causes
Be responsive to government standards and regulations	Ensure problems are resolved and the cause taken out of the system