Project Performance International

A. V&V are covered incrementally during the week. When a V&V matter arises, we discuss it in relation to the subject of the V&V. One and a half hours of incremental coverage of V&V throughout the course starts with the introduction of the nature, subjects and representative methods of V&V first thing Day 1 morning (in answer to the question “what is this systems engineering approach” - ref. the roadmap process diagram and the dog diagram), through to the superimposition of V&V on requirements and design work products via requirements and design reviews in a complex systems diagram (also Day 1), through to the explicit appearance of V&V in a SE Principles workshop (Workshop 1), through the discussion of V&V as represented on a “football diagram” process model (Day 2 morning), through the in-depth coverage of V&V using a Wedge Model (a PPI evolution of the V model, which, unlike the V model, accommodates multiple-build developments – this diagram is totally concerned with V&V); through to discussions of inputs to and outputs from V&V respectively via “box” diagrams (also Day 2), through to extensive presence of V&V in Workshop 2 (also Day 2), through to the consideration of verification traceability via discussion of a verification traceability diagram on late Day 2 afternoon, through to the discussion on Day 4 of a key-word searching approach to requirements verification, through to the brief reinforcement of the importance of using requirements reviews for requirements verification (Day 4 afternoon), through to discussion of the use of simulation and control flow analysis for design verification (on Day 4 via a logical design process diagram, and again on Day 5 via course notes content in Module 6).