Retirement Evaluation Team

Definition

Retirement Evaluation Team

the team that evaluates the deliverable retirement work products and the process that was used to produce them

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

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

The retirement evaluation team typically inherits the common team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

The retirement evaluation team typically consists of persons playing one or more of the following roles:

• Technical Leader,
  who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the retirement work products for technical quality.
• Reuse Engineer,
  who evaluates the deliverable retirement work products for reusability.
• Process Engineer,
  who evaluates the retirement work products for conformance to the associated standards and evaluation checklists.
• Quality Engineer,
  who evaluates the retirement 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, and delivers the report to the retirement team.

Tasks

The retirement evaluation team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Quality Control – Retiremetn Evaluation:
  • Evaluate the retirement work products:
    • Retirement Plan
    • Archived developer and user documentation
    • Archived Data Components
    • Archived Hardware Components
    • Archived Software Components

The retirement evaluation team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

The retirement evaluation team typically produces 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 because the work products being evaluateed should be able to stand on their own without the need for the authors to walk the evaluators through them.
• To the extent practical, the developers of a work product should:
  • Informally evaluate it prior to the formal evaluation to ensure that the actual evaluators do not waste their evaluateing an inadequately prepared work product.
  • Not be the only evaluators of it because it is difficult for developers to take the proper “destructive” attitude during the evaluation that will maximize the number of defects found.
• A retirement evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.