Requirements Engineering

Verification and Validation Services

Are we building the right system?

Are the specifications exhaustive and correct?

Are the requirements complete and clear?

Good questions to ask and yet unfortunately, too often they are not asked resulting in failed projects, some on a grand scale. Answering these questions can be difficult especially in large scale complex ICT programs.

To address the problem, we have built proven Independent Requirements Verification and Validation (I-RV&V) tools and capabilities that:

Discover defects early

Discovery of defects at an earlier stage of the development lifecycle when they are easier and cheaper to correct.

Ensure objectivity

Requirements are analysed from an unbiased technical viewpoint that demonstrates the ability of the specification to convey the right intention.

Mitigate risks

Assess and mitigate the risks associated with poor quality requirements and the potential consequences of a specification being misinterpreted.

Minimise variations & disputes

Identifies the areas of contention between client and supplier in a specification earlier, minimises the potential for unnecessary variations or legal disputes to occur.

Document non-disputable evidence & metrics

Provides non-disputable evidence and metrics that indicate the quality and complexity of the specification being reviewed.

Issues management

The quantity and severity of the issues raised build a clear risk profile for the project, which can then be mitigated by following the actionable recommendations included in a report

Taming Complexity

Using PhD qualified industry leading experts we built a robust requirements modeler which enables the creation of an integrated assessment of the specification being reviewed.

This integrated view enables us to identify, analyse and distill down issues within complex business, operational and functional requirements.

Working in partnership with our clients we deliver a clear, concise and unambiguous specifications assessment documented in a report organised under three topics

1. Detailed list of issues and risks.

2. Measurement of the quality and complexity of the reviewed specification.

3. Findings and recommendations.

BCI Technology are expert in the elicitation, specification, analysis and management of the full scope of business, system and software requirements. Our specialist requirements engineers are trained in the use of advanced methods which comply with industry standards for requirements specifications. Our research and development division BCI Labs provision bespoke tools and expert services for requirements verification and validation via the cloud.

BCI Technology has enjoyed repeated success in delivering very large scale ICT programs and projects within the tolerances of scope, cost, time, quality, risks and benefits in safety critical domains as well as the public sector

The benefits of using BCI Technology’s proven methods, tools and expert requirements engineering services from initial concept through to procurement to detailed design, build, test and project delivery lifecycle stages, is that it ensures the right solution is delivered to specification as required.

  • Discover defects early
  • Ensure objectivity
  • Mitigate risk
  • Minimise variations & disputes
  • Document non-disputable evidence & metrics
  • Issues management
The UK Government in writing off the $24 billion eHealth program, the equivalent of funding 50,000 nurses for a decade, cited the lack of requirements as a major causal factor and went further to announce that the methods adapted by the UK Government over the past decade have led to other catastrophic failures for nearly every portfolio. These types of failures can also be evidenced in Australia.

BCI Technology’s IRV&V service is delivered using:
• “BEE”, our own in-house, patent pending product
• A methodology and modelling language resulting from over ten years of research
• PhD qualified and industry leading requirements experts