Category Archives: peer reviews
Peer Reviews Improve Product Quality and Project Delivery
Shock! They actually work! Peer reviews are an effective tool to improve the quality of deliverables – be they documents, code, tests, presentations, etc. Yet they are still not used in many companies. Why not? People don’t have the “time” … Continue reading
Review Relevance and Fade Part 2
As I mentioned last time, reviews need preventive maintenance to ensure they remain effective and useful to the business. By setting someone as a responsible for the review improvement action, you cam eliminate the problem of everyone caring, no one … Continue reading
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Peer Review Relevance and Fade
Just finished conducting a short course on peer reviews, inspections and walkthroughs. A very interesting question was asked about the “quality fade” effect on reviews. This is a summary of how I responded: After peer reviews, inspections, walkthroughs (and various … Continue reading
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10 Steps To Better Project Reviews/Retrospectives
One of the more common aspects of projects that are often skimmed over too quickly is that of project reviews – also called project post-mortems, post-project reviews, post implementation reviews and Agile Retrospectives. It is often scheduled to occur at … Continue reading
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A Software Process Improvement Portfolio
Subsequent to my previous post, I thought we could clarify some issues using a Software Process Improvement Portfolio approach. As noted earlier many methods appear to extol the same virtues and build up a strawman of other methods to differentiate … Continue reading
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Peer Review checklists and how you could use them
Before we go any further, this post is meant for people who prepare specs, plans, test scripts. If you don’t, then you probably don’t want to read further. There are lots of ways to conduct a document review: 1. Do … Continue reading
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Peer Reviews and Measuring Software Quality
At Zenkara, we use pretty straight forward definitions of: Walkthrough: an informal page by page or section by section presentation of a document, piece of code, test script, etc by the lead author – and there’s usually lots of discussion … Continue reading
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How to measure software quality
A model of software product quality that has been around for many years is ISO9126. It’s never really gained a lot of traction in ICT projects. One of its issues is the lack of integration with SDLCs, requirements management and … Continue reading
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