Managing Verification and Validation

Abstract

Even though this book is focused on conveying information to engineers and scientists, I have to include a chapter on management. I have learned from my experiences that the project can not experience success unless management and subject matter experts (SMEs) work together. Numerous times I have fielded questions from the engineers in the trenches like “Why in the world does management want to know that?” It would be much simpler if management only communicated better. It would be just as simple if the engineers in the field fully understood and appreciated ex-actly what it took to lead a project in its entirety. The data that manage-ment uses to develop plans and control the project comes from the SMEs, as such they should fully understand or at least have an idea as to how that data is going to be used. That is why I have included a chapter on man-agement.