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Software Inspections: Intensive

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course overview

Private Seminar Only
Upstream inspections can eliminate up to 90 percent of the defects before testing while simultaneously producing net cost and schedule savings of 10 to 30 percent. Each hour of upstream inspection on large projects can save an average of 33 hours of maintenance. Inspections reduce the number of defects encountered by your customers, improve individual skills and performance, and help build stronger teams. Used skillfully, inspections can be one of the best investments your organization makes in the improvement of its software development process.

Seminar attendees will be provided a copy of Construx's CxOne inspection process document. You will have this course tailored to your own environment. Under the instructor's guidance you will practice using inspections to improve the quality of your own requirements, designs, or other work products.

who should attend

This seminar will be useful to developers, testers, technical leads, test leads, QA leads, software managers, and all other team members.

the seminar includes the following topics

The Costs of Software Defects

Defect-cost increase
Inspections vs testing
Inspection effectiveness data
ROI of inspections

Inspection Fundamentals

What can be inspected
The formal inspection process
Planning and preparing for an inspection
What happens in the inspection meeting
Use of checklists
Inspection follow-up and rework

Inspection Details

Relationship between preparation rate and defect-finding effectiveness
Building inspection checklists
Details of participant roles: author, moderator, scribe, inspector
Selecting the inspectors
The manager's role in a formal inspection
Differentiating between major and minor issues
Personal improvement with inspections

Improving Inspections

Improving the inspection process
Using inspections to Improve the software process

Keys to Successful Inspection Meetings

Preparation keys to success
Do's and don'ts with inspection materials
Moderator guidelines

Inspections Pitfalls

Inspection process failures
Team failures
Process improvement failures
Organization failures

Alternatives to Inspections

Desk Checks
Walkthroughs
Pair Programming

Variations on Inspections

Perspective-based inspections
Variations in collection of inspection data
Variations in pre-inspection preparation
Meeting length options (and do you need a meeting at all?)
Kinds of moderator support
Kinds of discussion topics allowed
Reading the inspections materials during the meeting or not
Issue classification schemes, e.g., "missing / wrong / extra"

Practice Applying Inspections in Your Organization

The second day of this seminar focuses on inspecting your organization's "live" work products under the instructor's guidance.

Introduction to customized checklist for your organization
Introduction to CxOne inspection process document
Inspection preparation
Inspection practice
Feedback from instructor
Refinement of your inspection process

On the second day, participants can expect to personally experience the benefits of inspections, including identifying defects in existing work products.

available instructors

Steve Tockey

pmi information

Quality Management

4 PDU

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