Operations and systems

• Digital tooling for requirement management. Selecting and deploying the appropriate digital toolsets and processes tailored to your project’s needs.
• Data model. Designing and implementing a tailored schema to enable end-to-end traceability and bring data to bear to support the project’s strategic goals.
• Enabling integration. Starting with the end in mind, implementing a robust requirements management framework that sets the project up for success.
• Demonstrable and defensible goals and metrics. Enabling the project to leverage verification and validation methods, so that you can confidently make an accurate case at any point in the project.
• Robust change and configuration management. Empower the project team to control its baseline, understand the impact of change, and take control of the requirement set.

• System definition. We can help you define the System of Interest, including its boundaries and interfaces, to understand what is in scope and how it will be used. We break down complex systems into manageable architectures to support integration.
• Configuration states. Dividing large and complex systems into manageable progressive deliveries of new infrastructure or improvements in operational capability, including temporary features and transient risk.
• Integration roadmaps. Visualising progressive integration for systems, infrastructure and organisational changes to deliver the integrated system and a robust basis for schedule.
• Migration strategies. Defining holistic program delivery strategy for bringing projects into service in the right order across multiple configuration states to identify the uplift in capability.
• Integrate people, processes and technologies. Holistic integrated approach for the delivery of infrastructure, technical systems, operational processes, organisational change to deliver enhanced capability.

• Safe testing facilitation. Establishing test regimes and procedures that empower test teams to exercise the system to the fullest whilst remaining safe.
• Plan your complete and correct testing campaigns. Systematically ensuring testing/ proving activities answer the vital questions. Choreographing what is tested when and guaranteeing that no test aims are missed.
• Build evidence based arguments. Ensuring sufficient and clear evidence is captured to demonstrate testing success and to support assurance arguments.
• Defects management. Ensuring test failures and defects are thoroughly impact-assessed and corrective actions are defined and tracked to closure.
• Holistic proving. Defining a tailorable suite of proving activities that comprehensibly prove the testing need has been met.

• Establish the correct approach. Building demonstrable claims that the operational needs, benefits and capabilities are incorporated into design for each stage. Ensure the resultant system yields the desired outcome.
• Validate the approach. Building comprehensive validation arguments and evidence, demonstrating effective traceability from test evidence to operational need/concept.
• Identify, reduce and manage safety risks. Assure that safety risks are identified and reduced with demonstrable evidence to support claims. Ensure residual risk is understood and transferred to the operator, and stage specific/transient risk is managed throughout the lifecycle.
• Demonstrate reliability, availability, and maintainability. Demonstrate that the service is resilient and can meet its targets for reliability and its maintenance (RAM demonstration).
• Achieving and evidencing completion. Ensure the entire safety and assurance arguments are articulated, with appropriate goals and evidence identified to structure a defensible position for safety and assurance cases.

We can:

• Rules and procedure development. Documenting the operational procedures that enable the required operation, and encapsulate safety requirements and administrative controls to effectively manage operational safety risks and controls.
• Building a trained and competent workforce. Evaluating the impact of change to roles and the organisation, then building a corresponding growth, resourcing and training framework that builds capability, capacity and competency within the operator.
• Demonstrating operational readiness. Building effective trial operations, maintenance demonstration and reliability growth campaigns to demonstrate integration of people, process and technology.
• Establishing operational readiness and transition to operations. Robust planning of transition phases, readiness activities and support arrangements that reinforce organisational capability and reduce risk prior to going live.
• Operations and maintenance concept definition. Articulating holistic operational and maintenance concepts that drive operational capabilities and system functionality required for successful integration.