IV&V, or independent verification and validation. And the way they had set it up, it essentially involved a third party, an impartial, objective party coming in and checking to make sure that the project team had actually met all of the requirements of the original requirements document
— Mark Schwartz · Busting Through Bureaucracy with the Monkey, the Razor, and the Sumo Wrestler, Las Vegas 2020 · at 19:37