Trials Management

Successful deployment of systems into distributed environments requires a thorough programme of testing and trials. The core skills required for successfully planning, managing, implementing and analysing such trials can be significantly different to those required to develop the system. integrate can work with your development teams to manage this vital phase to provide a cost-effective conclusion to the development.

integrate offers unusually strong and broad skills that are ideally suited to the management of significantly sized trials. These include trials architecture design, test planning, data analysis and modelling, software engineering, data fusion, algorithm development and remote data retrieval. Organisations whose experience of deploying these skills in a trials environment is limited can rely on integrate to manage and de-risk this area of work for them.

integrate has built a team of highly skilled and diverse systems engineers with a strong background in trials management and support. Our experience in successfully managing trials includes:

  • defining trials objectives and tracing these to requirements (using tools such as Telelogic DOORS®) to ensure that complete coverage is achieved;
  • defining clear and unambiguous success criteria to ensure the trials are relevant, sufficient and complete;
  • assessing and deploying off-the-shelf technology for collecting trials data;
  • developing bespoke software for gathering and analysing data in the field, including programming of mobile devices using .NET Compact Framework and Symbian;
  • connecting to remote devices in the field via wired and wireless methods utilising protocols such as USB, Bluetooth, WLAN and GPRS;
  • tracking mobile devices in the field using GPS, RFID and DSRC tags;
  • developing proprietary over-the-air protocols to upgrade trial equipment remotely;
  • creating and maintaining databases to manage large quantities of trials data using SQL server and other technologies;
  • developing algorithms and software to analyse large volumes of data efficiently;
  • modelling trials data in MatLab, Mathematica and other appropriate tools;
  • developing hosted solutions to display raw and analysed data using ASP.NET, AJAX and Silverlight;
  • using evidence from tests and trials to demonstrate fitness-for-purpose through structured argumentation;
  • planning and managing multi-million pound trials campaigns with large teams drawn from multiple industries and multiple organisations; and
  • providing PRINCE2 practitioners where formal project management methodology is required.