Management Evaluation Team

Definition

Management Evaluation Team

the team that inspects the deliverable management work products that are produced by the management teams

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

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

The management evaluation team typically inherits the common team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

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

• Technical Leader,
  who facilitates the evaluation meeting and inspects the management work products for technical quality.
• System Architect,
  who evaluates the deliverable management work products for system feasibility.
• Test Engineer,
  who inspects the requirements work products for testability.
• Process Engineer,
  who inspects the management work products for conformance to the associated standards and evaluation checklists.
• Quality Engineer,
  who inspects the management 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 management team(s).

Tasks

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

• Quality Control - Management Evaluation:
  • Inspect the management work products:
    • Budget
    • Component Schedule
    • Contract
    • Job Description
    • Management Plan
    • Management Team Schedule
    • Master Schedule
    • Organization Chart
    • Statement of Work
    • Status Report
    • Work Breakdown Structure
  • Inspect the risk management work product:
    • Risk Management Plan
  • Inspect the metrics work product:
    • Estimation Report

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

Work Products

The management evaluation team typically produces the following quality engineering work products:

• Evaluation Report,
  which documents an individual inspector'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 inspected should be able to stand on their own without the need for the authors to walk the inspectors through them.
• To the extent practical, the developers of a work product should:
  • Informally inspect it prior to the formal evaluation to ensure that the actual inspectors do not waste their inspecting an inadequately prepared work product.
  • Not be the only inspectors 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.
• The management evaluation team typically inherits the common guidelines from the team process component.