Deployment Evaluation Team

Definition

Deployment Evaluation Team

the team that performs one or more technical evaluations of the deployment work products and the deployment process by which they are produced

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

• Inspect the deliverable deployment work products.
• Notify the deployment team of any defects found.
• Recommend improvements to the endeavor process including (but not limited to) the:
  • Deployment activities and tasks.
  • Standards, templates, and evaluation checklists for the deliverable content management work products.

The deployment evaluation team typically inherits general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

The deployment evaluation team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and who evaluates the deployment work products for technical quality.
• Customer Representative, who evaluates the deployment work products for acceptability.
• User, who evaluates the deployment work products for usability.
• Quality Engineer, who evaluates the work products for quality and conformance to the endeavor process and relevant conventions.
• Technical Writer, who:
  • Acts as scribe at the evaluation meeting(s).
  • Summarizes the evaluation team’s findings in the evaluation summary report.
  • Delivers the evaluation summary report to the:
    • Deployment Team.
    • Management Team.
    • Quality Team.

Tasks

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

• Quality Engineering:
  • Quality Control - Deployment Evaluation
    Evaluate the deployment work products
  • Quality Assurance - In-Progress Review
    Audit the deployment process regarding:
    • The deployment activity, work flows, tasks, and techniques.
    • The standards, templates, and evaluation checklists for the deployment work products.

The deployment evaluation team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

The deployment evaluation team typically produces the following work products:

• Quality Set:
  • 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 that require the work products’ developers to explain them to the evaluators. 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 inspect it prior to the evaluation.
• A single person may play multiple roles on an evaluation team if he or she has the necessary expertise to fulfill multiple roles. This is especially true on small endeavors.
• A deployment evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team method component.