Public Sector

InterVision’s approach to IV&V services is to provide proactive feedback to guide decision-makers towards project success. We believe the key to project success is based on open communication, trust, and understanding our client’s business objectives, processes and culture, so we engage project stakeholders to provide them with a sense of ownership and work collaboratively with your organization. This way we have a shared commitment on what’s best for your project. The foundation of our IV&V approach is based on established best practices and standards, developed in a consistent yet customizable methodology. We subscribe to four pillars: Communication, Industry Standards, Experience, and Analysis.

In project efforts following a standard waterfall methodology, IV&V responds to the project stages with review processes timed to coincide with phase completion and submission of major deliverables. In project efforts following agile methodology, IV&V focuses on the delivery of working software and the project’s ability to adapt and shift directions based upon what the project team learns as users provide feedback incrementally. Rather than performing post-submission review on deliverables, IV&V on agile project efforts provides input in real-time with a continuing focus on user fit and the rapidly moving schedule. Similarly, rather than after-the-fact review, IV&V anticipates risks and issues with relatively rapid identification of process improvements. The “did we build it the right way” assessment is a continuing effort, not a one-time process. When performed in a hybrid-manner, our IV&V services participate in stage or gate reviews, contributing to decisions about whether the project is ready to move forward.

InterVision’s OCM goal is to guide people, processes, and culture through change initiatives resulting from the implementation of new applications and the transformation to new business processes.

InterVision’s Theory for Change is based on four identifiable concepts:

1. Personalize the human side
2. Understand your organization’s culture
3. Align the change process with the project’s system development lifecycle (SDLC)
4. Define the change strategy

Our OCM Framework integrates strategy, tools and techniques with your organization’s plans for business transformation, comprised of six strategic elements:

• Communication: Informing who is affected and impacted regarding the change
• Sponsorship: Ensuring there is active sponsorship for the change at a senior executive level within the organization and engaging this sponsorship to achieve the desired results.
• Stakeholder Management: Gaining buy-in for the changes from those involved and affected, directly or indirectly. Involving the right people in the design and implementation of changes, to make sure the right changes are made.
• Change Impact: Identifying the changes and the impact to business processes.
• Readiness: Getting people ready to adapt to the changes by ensuring they have the right information and toolsets.
• Transition and Training: Transition and train the appropriate resources on the change.

InterVision’s Partner and Professional Services (PPS) Team is comprised of experts who assist with general project management activities necessary to support your team. They integrate well into the project’s culture and become a part of your team while keeping stakeholders informed of the project’s health, generating and maintaining a monthly schedule, evaluating project artifacts, attending events, providing effective and timely feedback (findings, recommendations and conclusions), through formal and ad-hoc reporting, and identifying risks and issues found during the project lifecycle.

Our experts are experienced in both Agile and Waterfall SDLC processes, and leverage industry standards and best practices, such as PMI’s PMBOK, California Project Management Methodology (CA-PMM), Capability Maturity Model – Integrated (CMMI) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics IEEE standards. In addition to project management excellence, the team is well versed in all aspects of the SDLC lifecycle and lead large, diverse teams through effective requirements gathering sessions, composition of business use cases, and executing Joint Application Design (JAD) sessions for code walkthroughs. Together, they foster client engagement and participation in the testing processes, manage all phases of testing and formulate test results. Finally, the combined technical experience reinforces quality assurance assessments of system operations, optimizations, data transformation, and performance. Not to mention, our PPS Team also has over 10 years project management and project oversight experience managing the implementation of some of the largest and most complex technology implementation projects in government.

InterVision can assess your system architecture along five pillars: operational excellence, reliability, performance efficiency, security, and cost optimization. Each pillar contains several proven design principles that InterVision will verify if they’ve been considered, implemented, and tested appropriately. In combination with InterVision’s approach to ongoing communication with project staff, this framework approach provides projects early and actionable feedback on key architectural decision points, avoiding costly mistakes. Since each system architecture is unique, our framework is a tool for constructive conversation about architectural decisions that maximize the likelihood of business success. Since architectural decisions are often difficult to reverse, InterVision focuses on identifying the key decisions early in the system lifecycle and providing recommendations on evaluating alternatives and maintaining architectural flexibility.

InterVision provides public sector clients a tested and matured approach for migration, operation and optimization with our Cloud Migration Lifecycle Assurance (CMLA) program that represents a comprehensive approach to cloud migration and operations to ensure success in every phase of cloud adoption. InterVision’s experience as an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with the AWS Migration Competency, our status as a Microsoft Gold Partner, and our integrated CMLA approach assure you’ll receive faster delivery of a secured and optimized cloud operation. InterVision partners with a deep list of strategic technology partners in cloud, networking and security disciplines, providing a prescriptive methodology to assure migrations are built to operate efficiently.