
406 Quality Assurance
These four steps of VE follow a structured thought process to evaluate
options as follows.
• Gather information
• What is being done now?
• Who is doing it?
• What could it do?
• What must it not do?
• Measure
• How will the alternatives be measured?
• What are the alternate ways of meeting requirements?
• What else can perform the desired function?
• Analyze
• What must be done?
• What does it cost?
• Generate
• What else will do the job? (Identify alternatives)
• Evaluate
• Which ideas are the best? (Must have appropriate and applicable
criteria)
• Develop and expand ideas
• What are the impacts?
• What is the cost?
• ...