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

Jeff Grady is the President of JOG System Engineering, Inc., a system engineering consulting firm focused on the assessment of company's current capability coupled with education initiatives leading to planned improvements. Over the past ten years Jeff has provided training and consulting services for companies producing a broad range of products to a wide range of customers. Products have included aircraft, missile, farm equipment, medical equipment, unmanned aircraft, railroad, construction equipment, radio, radar, ship, nuclear, automotive, and battlefield management systems. These firms have included DoD contractors, commercial firms, and government agencies. Formerly, the Manager of System Development for General Dynamics Space Systems Division working on space transport and energy systems. Other experience, over a period of 30 years in industry, has included: system engineer with GD Convair on cruise missiles; system engineer, project engineer, and field engineer for Teledyne Ryan Aeronautical on unmanned photo reconnaissance, SIGINT, electronic warfare, and target aircraft, and customer training instructor for Librascope on underwater fire control systems. Served in the US Marines in the aviation communications field.

Author of five books in the system engineering field (System Requirements Analysis, McGraw-Hill, 1993; System Integration, CRC Press, 1994; System Engineering Planning and Enterprise Identity, CRC Press, 1994; System Validation and Verification, CRC Press, 1997; and System Engineering Deployment, CRC Press, 1999) as well as technical papers. He has lectured in system engineering at UC San Diego, Berkeley, and Irvine, University of Alabama, Huntsville, Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne, and Long Beach State. Jeff is a graduate of San Diego State University with a bachelors degree in mathematics and holds a Master of Science in system management from the University of Southern California (USC). He also has a certificate in information systems from USC.

Jeff is a member of IEEE as well as a charter member, past Secretary, and founding editor of the Journal for INCOSE. In 2001 Jeff was honored by INCOSE with the Fellow Award and in 2002 with the Founder's Award.

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.

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