Intelligent
(Software) Inspection
One and half Day
Tom Gilb
Do you want to kick-start or revitalize
a "formal" review/inspection method in your organization?
Do you want to improve the quality of any documentation you produce?
Do you intend to become Inspection Team Leader (moderator)?
Do you want to measure the quality of documents?
| About Software Inspection "Inspection" is well known from literature as the most
cost-effective way to improve the quality of any document. 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
- gradual productivity 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). |
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 Tom
GilbIs 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" and "Software
Inspection".
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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.
Aims of the Inspection Course
This course gives a thorough overview of the Advanced
Software Inspection method, developed by Tom Gilb, his colleagues and clients in the past
23 years. The material covered teaches to the level of Inspection Team Leader (Moderator).
The aim is to provide you with sufficient information to enable you to organize and run
effective inspections and to implement the inspection method in your organization.
Structure and Schedule of the Course
The course is composed of lectures and exercises (see
below). The exercises will be carried out in small teams. Inspections are
carried out on real (non confidential) 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:
13.00 - 17.30 |
Day 2:
09.00 - 16.00 |
Theory:
- Inspection overview (entry, planning, kickoff,
checking, logging, edit, exit)
- Differences from conventional inspections
- The planning phase
- Making the master plan
- Entry and exit conditions
- Rules, checklists and procedures
- kickoff meeting
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Exercise:
- Produce inspection master plan
- Carry out one inspection
Theory:
- Inspection Objectives
- Evaluation of inspection results
- Maximizing effectiveness
- Selected topics
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Course Materials
For this course there will be no paper binders. Instead we
will provide you with a CD with the course materials (powerpoint) and much more good stuff
at the start of the course. You can take your laptop/notebook PC with you to the course,
so that you can write your own comments.
Course Location & Pricing
Course Location: Aristo Zalen Conference
Centre, Amsterdam Sloterdijk, The Netherlands.
Price: EUR. 1.050,- (excl. VAT). In order to encourage multiple
registrations from the same organization, the course price for successive participants
from one organization is EUR 945,- (excl. VAT). We reserve ourselves the right to limit
the number of registering participants per organization to four.
Hotel accommodations are not included in the course fee. Upon registration you will
receive a list of hotels in the vicinity.
Registration
There are three easy ways to register:
Payment and Cancellation Policy:
SPI Partners has 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 on the SPI Partners Bank Account is due 30 days after the
invoice date (so about two weeks after the start date of this course). For participants
who reside outside the European Union, payment on our Bank Account is due before the start
of the course.
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 NLG. 200,= (excluding 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 Dutch Guilders (NLG) and exclude BTW/VAT.
More information
For more information e.g. for in-house courses, call SPI
Partners: 040 248 98 22, international: +31 40 248 98 22.
