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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
A Day in Refactoring Agile Project Process Part 3
315 Arvo Tea We like to take advantage of as many informal activities and gatherings as possible (plus we love coffee and donuts What strikes us with the people in this company is that everyone at all levels have … 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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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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Peer reviews, walkthroughs and inspections
I gave a presentation recently on implementing peer reviews, walkthroughs and inspections. In it we described the various review process rollouts we’ve been involved in over the past few years. Some have been very successful, others requiring tweaking. One of … Continue reading
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Peer Reviews & Defects
I was asked recently about peer reviews – what they are, how to run them, etc. I was amazed at how rarely these are run. Generally people simply send documents out for review and then receive comments back by email. … Continue reading
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