VERIFICATION & VALIDATION

Maturity Level 3 – Engineering Group

CMMI V1.2
Process Owner – Ravi
8th Jan 2010 Friday
L&T – Sargent & Lundy Limited Faridabad

IT’S MORE THAN QUALITY

IT’S PROCESS ENGINEERING.
 Ronald Reagan
40th President of the United States (1981–1989)
 Whose requirement?
• This process is not CMMI requirement but it is OUR
requirement.

2007 1965
Technical Specifications
Preparation
Verification
PEER Review
Validation
• Judgments may need to be made about
whether the value of the results will be
commensurate with the resources devoted to
doing the work.
• Verification is a Quality Control process that is used to evaluate
whether or not a product, service, or system complies with
regulations, specifications, or conditions imposed at the start of a
development phase. Verification can be in development, scale-up, or
production. This is often an internal process.

• Validation is Quality assurance process of establishing evidence

that provides a high degree of assurance that a product, service, or
system accomplishes its intended requirements. This often involves
acceptance of fitness for purpose with end users and other product
stakeholders.
 Purpose of VER &VAL
• The purpose of Verification (VER) is to ensure that selected work
products meet their specified requirements.

• The purpose of Validation (VAL) is to demonstrate that a product or

product component fulfills its intended use when placed in its
intended environment.
• verification: “are we building the product right”

• validation: “are we building the right product”

 VERIFICATION
Specific Goal and Practice Summary

• SG 1 Prepare for Verification

– SP 1.1 Select Work Products for Verification

– SP 1.2 Establish the Verification Environment
– SP 1.3 Establish Verification Procedures and Criteria

• SG 2 Perform Peer Reviews

– SP 2.1 Prepare for Peer Reviews

– SP 2.2 Conduct Peer Reviews
– SP 2.3 Analyze Peer Review Data

• SG 3 Verify Selected Work Products

– SP 3.1 Perform Verification

– SP 3.2 Analyze Verification Results
 Verification
an incremental process

• verification of
– the requirements
• verification of
– the evolving work products
• verification of
– the completed product
• Verification for systems engineering
typically includes prototyping, modeling,
and simulation to verify adequacy of
system design (and allocation).
 PEER REVIEW

• The focus of the peer review should be on the work

product in review, not on the person who produced it.

• These reviews are structured and are not management

reviews

• Record data related to the preparation, conduct, and

results of the peer reviews.
 VALIDATION
Specific Goal and Practice Summary

• SG 1 Prepare for Validation

– SP 1.1 Select Products for Validation

– SP 1.2 Establish the Validation Environment
– SP 1.3 Establish Validation Procedures and Criteria

• SG 2 Validate Product or Product Components

– SP 2.1 Perform Validation

– SP 2.2 Analyze Validation Results
 Generic Goal and Practices Summary

• GG 2 Institutionalize a Managed Process

– GP 2.1 Establish an Organizational Policy

– GP 2.2 Plan the Process
– GP 2.3 Provide Resources
– GP 2.4 Assign Responsibility
– GP 2.5 Train People
– GP 2.6 Manage Configurations
– GP 2.7 Identify and Involve Relevant Stakeholders
– GP 2.8 Monitor and Control the Process
– GP 2.9 Objectively Evaluate Adherence
– GP 2.10 Review Status with Higher Level Management

• GG 3 Institutionalize a Defined Process

– GP 3.1 Establish a Defined Process

– GP 3.2 Collect Improvement Information
 SOPs Related to VER & VAL
SOP 0703 Preparation, Review and Approval of Design Calculations

SOP 0704 Preparation, Review and Approval of L&T-S&L Drawings

SOP 0406 Development & Verification of Controlled Electronic Files

SOP 0407 Processing of Comments on Vendor Design Documents

SOP 0601 Qualifying L&T-S&L Personnel

SOP 0706 Inter Discipline Design Review

SOP 0708 Preparation, Review and Approval of Procurement

Specifications