Safety Evaluation Team

Definition

Safety Evaluation Team

the team that evaluates the deliverable safety work products and the processes by which they are developed

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Safety Evaluation Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Evaluation Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Safety Evaluation Team are to:

• Evaluate the deliverable safety work products.
• Notify the safety team of any defects found.
• Recommend improvements to the process regarding:
  • The safety engineering activity and tasks.
  • The standards, templates, and evaluation checklists for the deliverable safety work products

The Safety Evaluation team typically inherits the common team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

The Safety Evaluation team typically consists of persons playing one or more of the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the safety work products for technical quality.
• Project Manager, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on schedule and cost.
• Safety Manager, who evaluates the safety work products for consistency with the safety program plan.
• Metrics Analyst, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on schedule and cost.
• Domain Expert, who evaluates the safety work products for correctness and completeness.
• Safety Evaluator, who evaluates the safety work products for adequacy and appropriateness.
• Hardware Architect, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on the hardware architecture.
• Software Architect, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on the software architecture.
• System Architect, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on the system architecture.
• Test Engineer, who evaluates the safety work products for impact on the system’s testability.
• Process Engineer, who evaluates the safety work products for conformance to the associated standards and checklists.
• Quality Engineer, who evaluates the safety work products for quality and conformance to the relevant conventions.
• Technical Writer, who:
  • Acts as scribe at the evaluation meeting
  • Summarizes the evaluation team’s findings in the evaluation summary report
  • Delivers the report to the safety team.

Tasks

The Safety Evaluation team typically performs the following team-specific quality engineering tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Safety Evaluation:
  Inspect the safety work products

The Safety Evaluation team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

The Safety Evaluation team typically produces all or part of the following quality engineering work products:

• Evaluation Report, which documents an individual evaluator’s findings.
• Evaluation Summary Report, which summarizes the finding of the entire evaluation team.

Guidelines

• Evaluations should not devolve into walkthroughs. The work products should stand on their own.
• To the extent practical, the developers of a work product should:
  • Not be the only evaluators of it.
  • Also informally evaluate it prior to the evaluation.
• The Safety Evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team method component.