Jeffrey O. Grady, Instructor
Summary
This course focuses on producing convincing evidence of design compliance (or not) with the requirements and the planning of the related processes culminating in functional configuration and physical configuration audits. The developer is always interested in producing convincing evidence of compliance, of course, but the reality is that the verification work must be accomplished with near perfect engineering integrity. This process must produce insight into the truth about the design relative to the driving requirements.
This process stretches across the whole development program beginning with the preparation of the specifications early in the development and culminating with audits of test and analysis work late in the program. The course covers this whole sweep of events including the technical work, management activity, and documentation formats found useful. Database structures that are useful in this work are covered as well, for there is a tremendous information management problem related to this work.
A four tiered documentation plan is covered entailing capturing the verification process requirements in the corresponding specification (Section 4), the plans and procedures in an integrated verification plan, the verification reports in an integrated verification data report, and all of the management data (matrices, and schedules) in an integrated verification management report.
The course is based on the lecturer’s book System Validation and Verification published by CRC Press in 1997 and updated based on subsequent research, experience, and teaching. The table below provides a detailed outline for the course.
Instructor
Jeffrey O. Grady has 30 years of industry experience in aerospace companies as a system engineer, engineering manager, field engineer, and project engineer. Jeff has authored seven published books in the system engineering field and holds a Master of Science in System Management from USC. He teaches system engineering courses nation-wide. Jeff is an INCOSE Founder, Fellow, and CSEP.
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Course Outline
Hour 01 — Requirements and Specifications Overview
Hour 02 — Validation and Verification Overview
Hour 03 — Verification Requirements Identification
Hour 04 — Verification Requirements Identification (Continued)
Hour 05 — Verification Requirements Writing Workshop
Hour 06 — Verification Requirements Writing Workshop (Continued)
Hour 07 — Top-Down Verification Planning & Documentation
Hour 08 — Top-Down Item Qualification Planning Workshop
Hour 09 — Top-Down Item Qualification Planning Workshop (Continued)
Hour 10 — Bottom-Up Item Qualification Planning Analysis
Hour 11 — Bottom-Up Item Qualification Planning Workshop
Hour 12 — Bottom-Up Item Qualification Planning Workshop (Continued)
Hour 13 — Item Qualification Implementation
Hour 14 — Item Qualification Verification Management & Audit
Hour 15 — FCA Workshop
Hour 16 — FCA Workshop (Continued)
Hour 17 — System Verification Planning
Hour 18 — Acceptance Verification Planning
Hour 19 — Acceptance Verification Planning (Continued)
Hour 20 — Acceptance Verification Workshop
Hour 21 — Acceptance Verification Workshop (Continued)
Hour 22 — Acceptance Verification Mgmt and Audit
Hour 23 — Re-Verification and Verification Variations
Hour 24 — Process Validation and Verification
Tuition
Tuition for this three-day course is $1400 per person at one of our scheduled public courses. Onsite pricing is available. Please call us at 410-956-8805 or send an email to ati@ATIcourses.com.