Consulting Services
NearU functions as an extention of your Project Management and Engineering departments, minus the business challenges. NearU's delivery model for consulting services is built from the ground up with quality and security in mind. We support your business with:
Project and Process Management
- Project Management under various process methodologies like PRINCE2, ASPICE, V-Model XT, CMMI, SCRUM, KANBAN. We support you in all processes of a project, regardless if you are an Acquirer or a Supplier, e.g. we perform your cost/benefits analysis, risk analysis, conceptual design, planning (work packages definition, milestones definition, scheduling, resources), project monitoring and controlling as well as your reporting and evaluation.
- Process Management and Process Adaption under guidance of
- business and service standards like TOGAF, NAF, ITIL, or ISO22301:2019
- and safety standards like DO178B/C, ARINC653, ISO 330xx, IEC61508, ISO26262, EN50128. With our long and successfull expierence we enable you go through the development of optimized safe and secure systems with no pain.
- Project Management Office is your central "switch-office" for controlling, monitoring and support of your single projects or even your Programme Portfolio. We enable you to optimally plan, organize and run your PMO as a vital hub for your whole project management.
Requirements Engineering
Requirements Engineering is an essential task for a project. Our expertise is in capturing of user systems requirements, turn them into use cases and systems requirements while defining the appropriate evaluation and acceptance concepts and processes. The Requirements Engineering Process includes also the management of the related stakeholders. We support you in:- Requirements Management as the whole process of documentation, analysis, trace, aggreeing on requirements, controlling their changes and communicating to stakeholder.
- Requirements Analysis, including among other steps
- Identification of Key Stakeholders
- Elicitation of User / Business Requirements
- Utilization of Use Cases which can be later used as base for Verification/Validation
- Categorization, Priorization and Severity of Requirements.
- Feasibility Study on Requirements and Definition of Measurable Goals
- Contract Requirements Analysis in order to avoid later Change Requests
- Requirements Specification according to ISO/IEC/IEEE 29148:2018, or to your own standards
- Requirements Traceability. Fulfillment of the Requirements Traceability Matrix is one of the major aspects for the verification and validation of a product and its final acceptance by your customer. We set up and control the traceability matrix from the very first step of the Requirements Elicitation up to final step of User Acceptance Testing
- Requirements Change Management. We setup and manage your Change Control Board, both for technical as well as organizational/contractual change requests.
Security and Risk Management
Furthermore, NearU offers independent consulting services and audits in the following Safety, Security and Risk Management areas:
- Systems Quality Engineering according quality standards like DO-178/DO-254, ARP4754/ARP4761, ISO26262 or , IEC 62443x / 62351x
- Security Consulting Services ISO/IEC 270xx or IT-Grundschutz .
- Quality Assessement for Embedded Systems conform to relevant standards like Common Criteria, ISO 33020, SQALE.
- Consulting in Supply Chain Security Management according to ISO 28000
- Implementation of Risk Management Systems according to ISO 31000
- PCI DSS
- Vulnerability Analysis including among others
- Source Code Inspection with static and dynamic programming analysis.
- CERT Vulnerability Analysis