How to Perform reviews and inspections Course Description
This workshop covers reviews used for examining the work products built by a team. It describes the various types of work product reviews (technical reviews, walkthroughs, and inspections), along with criteria used to select the appropriate type of review.
Lectures, discussion, and team exercises focus on inspections that are based on methods originally defined by Fagan and evolved by others. Inspections are known to provide significant benefits to organizations at all levels of maturity, for a wide variety of work products. To be effective, inspection must follow a well-defined process using work product-specific guidelines and checklists.
Participants learn the methods by performing several inspections and they tailor process materials appropriate to their organization. These materials include fundamental checklists, statistics gathering templates, and inspection procedures.
Target Audience
This course benefits anyone involved in developing or reviewing documents of many types. Candidates include project managers, software developers, quality assurance staff, training developers, marketing personnel, and customers.
Prerequisites
None
Objectives
Successful completion of this course will enable participants to:
- select an appropriate type of review for a work product
- identify the roles to be included in a work product review
- participate in a review or inspection
- gather data about the defects found in a review or inspection
- evaluate the results from a review or inspection, to determine whether or not the expected goals were met
- identify improvements to templates and guidelines used for reviews and inspections
Topics
- Selecting a review type
- Performing inspections
- Using inspection data
- Building inspection assets
- Institutionalizing the inspection process
Included with this Workshop
Materials include a student notebook, an exercise booklet, and a set of guidelines and checklists for performing inspections.
Teaching Schedule
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DAY 1 |
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8:30 AM |
0:30 |
Startup and Module 1: Introduction (including student introductions and expectations) |
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9:00 AM |
0:30 |
Module 2: Selecting Reviews |
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9:30 AM |
0:20 | Exercise 1: Our Work Processes |
| 9:50 AM | 0:15 | Break |
| 10:05 AM | 0:45 | Module 2: Selecting Reviews (continued) |
| 10:50 AM | 0:30 | Exercise 2: Selecting a Review |
| 11:20 AM | 0:15 | Module 2: Selecting Reviews (continued) |
| 11:35 AM | 1:00 | Lunch |
| 12:35 PM | 1:00 | Exercise 3: Walkthrough |
| 1:35 PM | 1:20 | Module 3: Performing Inspections |
| 2:55 PM | 0:15 | Break |
| 3:10 PM | 0:30 | Exercise 4: Preparation Examples |
| 3:40 PM | 0:20 | Exercise 5: Inspection Preparation |
| 4:00 PM | 0:20 | Module 3: Performing Inspections (continued) |
| 4:20 PM | 0:45 | Exercise 6: Inspecting the Document |
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5:05 PM |
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End of day |
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DAY 2 |
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8:30 AM |
0:15 |
Plus Delta review |
| 8:45 AM | 0:30 | Module 3: Performing Inspections (continued) |
| 9:15 AM | 1:00 | Exercise 7: Logging Meeting |
| 10:15 AM | 0:15 | Break |
| 10:30 AM | 0:15 | Module 3: Performing Inspections (continued) |
| 10:45 AM | 1:00 | Exercise 8: A Complete Inspection |
| 11:45 AM | 1:00 | Lunch |
| 12:45 PM | 1:00 | Module 4: Using Inspection Data |
| 1:45 PM | 0:40 | Module 5: Building the Inspection Process |
| 2:25 PM | 0:15 | Break |
| 2:40 PM | 0:45 | Exercise 9: Building a Checklist |
| 3:25PM | 0:45 | Exercise 10: Drafting a Process |
| 4:10 PM | 0:20 | Module 6: Next Steps |
| 4:30 PM | End of Day | |