Abstract
Organisations invest in the acquisition of technology to improve the efficiency of their operations. One such organisation is a South African based freight railway company that invested in train authorisation and railway condition monitoring technology to improve the safety of running of trains and to ensure timely delivery of customer’s goods. It is imperative that the acquired technologies serve the purpose that it was acquired for and is of good quality to mitigate train delays and cancellations due to technology failure. Studies have revealed that to improve the quality of technology, effective verification and validation (V&V) best practices must be implemented during the system development life cycle of the technology. To detect and remove defects early, verification and validation need to be started as early as during requirement definition stage and carried out at each subsequent development stage. One of the challenges faced by the railway company is that poor quality technology is acquired and released into operations with inherent defects that were not detected during V&V. The objective of this study is to identify areas of improvement in the railway company requirement V&V processes...
M.Ing. (Engineering Management)