The purpose of Sabot’s IV&V service is to increase the project’s probability of success by identifying actual or potential adverse technical conditions on the project and making recommendations for their correction, avoidance, or mitigation.  Sabot’s IV&V consultants focus on assessing your project’s technical processes in accordance with best practices for systems development and is conducted in alignment with IEEE Standard 1012.

The IEEE standards related to software and systems development provide the technical best practices against which the project’s performance is measured.  Sabot also references applicable best practices from sources such as The Software Engineering Institute’s Capability Maturity Models as well as our consultants’ own experience as software development leads and architects.    When serving as an IV&V team, it is Sabot’s responsibility to independently discover, analyze, quantify, and communicate any anomalies in the technical processes and work products/artifacts that represent a risk to project success and to offer recommendations for correcting, avoiding or mitigating these anomalies.

IV&V serves as the early warning system for technical defects and is vastly more efficient to identify and correct technical defects earlier in the development lifecycle rather than later.  By doing so, the project realizes less rework and less schedule, cost, and resource impact.