Defining Your Product Design Specification

We discuss and negotiate the customer requirements of the desired product. Ideally, this should be completed as part of the negotiation phase to minimize the impact of any changes, but we can accommodate this later in the development lifecycle if we are required to.

We review your customer requirements, analyze them and manage them. The agreed requirements are then formally documented using the requirements engineering tool of your choice (we support Doors, Polarion, Jira, PTC Integrity, Jama, amongst others)

We generate your stakeholder requirements from the agreed customer requirements, including demonstrating traceability by linking them back to the customer requirements, baselining the requirements database and providing them to the team(s) or team managers for the development phases.

We automate the requirements import process from your customer requirements and into the selected requirements engineering tool so that any subsequent updates to the customer requirements can be automatically included, managed and are fully visible and traceable in the requirements database.

We conduct thorough reviews and checks to ensure that no errors are introduced.

Change Management

Where changes are required to any customer requirements, we manage this process by generating formal Change Requests that document the required updates and link them to the affected requirements. We inform the CCB (Change Control Board) about the nature of the changes and arrange discussions to consider the changes with your team and any other involved stakeholders.

This ensures that when your product design is created, it will always meet the current defined customer requirements. This ensures that the most up to date and correct design is always available to the development team and the test team.

Where the Scrum methodology is employed for your product development, the product design is adapted to each sprint and tuned. We ensure all change requests are incorporated at the very latest by the deadline of the prototype development.

System Specifications

We generate system specifications for each team, tailored for the system and its components that each team is responsible for developing

As part of this process, we define the appropriate architectures for each system and its components.

System Architecture

We produce an overall system architecture showing the decomposition into the individual system and component architectures.

We fully define the interfaces between the systems and their components.

We undertake a program of regular reviews to ensure the quality of the overall system architecture is maintained.

Test Development

We undertake full verification of the development artifacts throughout the development lifecycle. Derived from the design specifications, we create test suites comprised of test cases for specific input ranges and values, target execution conditions, and defined testing procedure(s), and document the expected results.

We undertake validation of the developed product at the end of the development lifecycle. Derived from the stakeholder requirements, we create system test suites consisting of system test cases that validate each of the stakeholder requirements.

Product Acceptance Testing

They demonstrate that the finalized product satisfies your customer requirements, the product requirements and fulfills any certification requirements for the intended market.