Formal Peer Review

Purpose:

Conduct peer review of selected work products and identify issues resulting form these review.

Objective:

Reviews of selected work products and identify issues resulting form these reviews are conducted.

Description:

One of the purposes of conducting a peer review is to find and remove defects early. Peer reviews are performed incrementally as work products are being developed. These reviews are structured and are not management reviews.

Peer reviews may be performed on the main work products of specifications, design, test, and implementation activities in specific planning work products.

The focus of peer review should be on the working product in a review, not the person who produced it.

When issues arise during the peer review, they should be communicated to the primary developer of the work product for correction

Peer reviews should address the following guidelines:

    • there must be sufficient preparation, the conduct must be managed and controlled
    • consistent and adequate data must be recorded
    • and action items must be recorded.

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Task Instructions:

Check Work Product Readiness

    1. Using the and , [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for verifying the review readiness of the documents.

Conduct Formal Peer Review Kickoff Meeting

    1. Using the Review Plan section within the Project Plan, [the Work Product Owner] consulting with [the Project Manager] is responsible for validating the Reviewers.
    2. Using the Kickoff Meeting within the Formal Peer Review Invitation Template, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible complete the Kickoff Meeting worksheet.
    3. Using the Kickoff Meeting, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for scheduling and conducting a formal kickoff Meeting.

Schedule Formal Peer Review Meeting

    1. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting within the Formal Peer Review Invitation, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for completing the document.
    2. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for scheduling a Formal Peer Review meeting.

Prepare for Formal Peer Review Meeting

    1. Using the Meeting Documents within the Formal Peer Review Meeting, the are responsible for reviewing the work products and work product supporting documents.

Conduct Formal Peer Review Meeting

    1. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for presenting the review package.
    2. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for updating the Action Items section.
    3. Using the Consolidated Review Log within the Formal Peer Review Invitation, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for documenting the identified modifications.

Formal Peer Review Follow Up

    1. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting and Consolidated Review Log, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for sending the Meeting Minutes to all invited reviewers and [the Project Manager].
    2. Using the Consolidated Review Log, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for following up with the Reviewers for clarification and confirms reviewers’ concerns, comments, or questions.
    3. Using the Peer Review Summary Report within the Formal Peer Review Invitation, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for updating the content.
    4. Using the Formal Peer Review Meeting, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for scheduling an additional review.

Fix Modifications from Formal Peer Review

    1. Using the Peer Review Summary Report, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for tracking the effort spent to resolve identified modifications.
    2. Using the Consolidated Review Log, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for consulting with [the Project Manager] to get an agreement on which modifications to be updated and which need to be classified as out of scope.
    3. Using the Consolidated Review Log, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for fixing the identified modifications and ensures they do not introduce new or unintended modifications.
    4. Using the Project Document Control, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for ensuring that the work product is revised per the Project Document Control.
    5. Using the Consolidated Review Log, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for verifying closure of the review modifications

Document and Communicate Formal Peer Review Results

    1. Using the Peer Review Plan within the Product Quality Plan, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for ensuring that the review conducted meets the defined exit criteria for the worked product.
    2. Using the Peer Review Summary Report, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for completing the document and sending it to [the Project Manager].
    3. Using the Review Plan within the Product Quality Plan, [the Project Manager] approves that the review conducted meets the work’s defined exit criteria.
    4. Using the , , Peer Review Summary Report, and Project Document Control, [the Work Product Owner] is responsible for checking in the documents into Configuration Management Library.