BENEFITS Joining our working group will make you: • Improve your understanding of IVVQ’s role and importance within the SE process. • Benchmark your IVVQ’s practices against practices from other companies. • Help improve your processes, methods, and practices of IVVQ. • Make your managers aware of the necessity to consider IVVQ throughout the whole project.

• Exchange points of view between acquirers and suppliers

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Working Group Integration Verification Validation Qualification (IVVQ)

Worki ng Group

AIMS

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Process Description

Worki ng Group

ACTIVITIES

To promote an IVVQ Process in order to improve quality and to reduce risks, costs and lead time by:

• Thinking about adapting an IVVQ process to projects and setting it up

• Sharing experience (good practices and pitfalls)

• Producing memory joggers and checklists

• Generating recommendations to place IVVQ activities within the System Engineering (SE) Process and to involve concerned stakeholders from the beginning of the project • Contributing to make IVVQ « Good Practices » acknowledged by national and international authorities.

• Defining good practices.

Integration: progressive system building from its components System Verification: Confirmation that specified requirements are satisfied. System Validation: Confirmation that stated needs are satisfied in an operational environment. System Qualification: Ascertainment by the acquirer that the real need has been fullfilled, enabling full scale production.

• Giving an on site exchange of IVVQ practices by WG members • Presenting members’ IVVQ methods applied to real industrial projects. • Interacting with the other AFIS WGs