Agile Inspection
One Day

Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

Do you want to radically improve the quality of the technical development specifications you produce (like requirements, and design)?
Do you want to measure the quality, in relation to your standards, of your user/marketing inputs to development?
Do you want to increase the productivity of your current Peer Review or Inspection Process
?
Do you
kick-start or revitalize an agile review/inspection method in your organization?


About (Agile) Inspection

All too many systems and software engineering projects are doomed even before they leave the drawing board. They will exceed budgets, miss critical deadlines and fail to meet their requirements. A major cause for this familiar scenario is the large number of errors, defects and omissions is the untrained thinking in the original planning. This course addresses the problem.

"Inspection" is well known from literature as the most cost-effective way to improve the quality of any document or specification. Productivity improvements in the order of magnitude of "doubling productivity" have been reported as a direct result of introducing Inspections.

Inspection applies to anything in written form, including engineering drawings, proposals, contracts and other management documents, as well as all software related documents as requirements, designs, source code listings, test-plans, test-scripts and user-documentation.

The benefits of using inspection include:

  • early removal of major defects
  • enabling numeric quality assessment of any technical document
  • process improvement
  • staff training on the job
  • evolutionary perfomance improvement

Tom Gilb's version of Inspection is a substantial extension and improvement over the original inspection method of Michael Fagan (early 70's). The Inspection Method is participant friendly and focuses both on identifying defects AND on improving the engineering process. The inspection method is suitable for supporting projects and organizations at any of the five levels of the Software Capability Maturity Model (CMM(I)).

Agile Inspection is a variant of classical Inspection. Agile Inspection reduces the inspection effort, based on statistical sampling techniques.

Tom2.gif (14700 bytes)Tom Gilb

Is a leading independent consultant and acknowledged expert in all aspects of systems planning and development arising in large, dynamic multinational organizations. Over the last 30 years he has developed and practiced advanced methods for setting quality requirements, designing, quality control and project management for IT projects, software projects, systems projects and organizational projects. Tom has written several books including "Principles of Software Engineering Management", "Software Inspection" and "Competitive Engineering".

Kai Gilb (1968)

Did his first course with Tom 1986, and started full time work with him in 1992, teaching, running workshops, consulting, starting up projects, saving projects, solving problems, lecturing, editing books and articles, writing course & lecture materials etc.

Some of his contributions to the methods are to broaden the scope & at the same time focusing on essential fundamentals.

 Click here to download  a Process Description
 on Agile Inspection, by Tom Gilb

 (WORD, 18 pages, 104 Kb)

bullet.gif (868 bytes) Who should attend?

This public course is suited for those who intend to become inspection team leader, who will implement an inspection process, or people who have the responsibility for selecting innovative software engineering ideas for their organization. The course is typically attended by quality management and process improvement people (SEPG), project managers and any level of systems- and software engineering professionals, including requirements-,  design-, coding-, test-, (user) documentation specialists and consultants.
  

bullet.gif (868 bytes) Aims of the Agile Inspection Course

This course gives an overview of the Agile Inspection method, developed by Tom Gilb, his colleagues and clients in the past 23 years. The aim is to provide you with sufficient information to add Agile Inspection principles to your current Peer Review process, or to adopt Agile Inspection as your organizations Peer Review process.

The Agile Inspection course will show you:

bullet.gif (868 bytes) Structure and Schedule of the Course

This one-day course is composed of lectures and Q&A (Questions and Answers) only. A demonstration agile inspection will be carried out on real (non- confidential client-provided) documents (both Dutch and English) from the participants. The number of participants is limited to no more than 28 per class to allow maximum opportunity to ask questions and raise issues.

Day 1:
09.00 - 17.00
Theory:
  • A case study of requirements QC at a major multinational: how to predict project delays at the beginning, correctly.
  • The notion of rules for specification: an objective standard.
  • The notion of numeric exit control of specifications
  • The Spec QC process: simplified Agile method based on sampling, measurement and motivation to reduce defect injection
  • Extensions to Spec QC process
  • SQC compared to testing and reviews
  • Case study of sampling from major software supplier 2005.
  • Case study from a major financial IT shop.
  • (option) a demonstration of SQC on participant materials

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You will receive a copy of Tom Gilb's new book "Competitive Engineering", published by Elsevier in 2005.
You will receive a binder with copies of all slides and examples.
Furthermore you will receive at the course a CD with lot's of Requirements, Evo and Inspection background materials.
Much of the course materials, and book chapters can also be found on, and downloaded free of any charges from Tom's web-site: www.gilb.com.


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Price: EURO 750,- (excl. VAT). In order to encourage multiple registrations from the same organization, the course price for successive participants from one organization is EUR 675,- (excl. VAT).

Hotel accommodations are not included in the course fee. Upon registration you will receive a list of hotels in the vicinity of the venue.

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SPI Partners have the right to cancel the course at the latest 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date if fewer than 8 participants have registered at that time.
The invoice for this course will be sent by SPI Partners 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date. Payment is due before the course start date.
If you are unable to attend this course, your organization may delegate another individual from your organization instead of you until the morning of the start date of the course.
A cancellation fee of Euro 100,= (exclusing VAT) will be charged for cancellations received more than 15 calendar days prior to the course's start date.
Registrants whose cancellation is received after sending of the invoice, as well as no shows, are liable for payment of the entire fee for the course.

All prices are in Euro and exclude BTW/VAT.
We do not send invitation letters for obtaining a visum for The Netherlands.
 

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