Configuration Management Evaluation Team

Definition

Configuration Management Evaluation Team

any team that evaluates the deliverable configuration management work products and the processes that were used to produce them

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Configuration 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 Configuration Management Evaluation Team are to:

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

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

Roles

A Configuration Management Evaluation Team typically consists of persons playing one or more of the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the requirements work products for technical quality.
• Project Manager, who evaluates the requirements work products for impact on schedule and cost.
• Metrics Analyst, who evaluates the requirements work products for impact on schedule and cost.
• System Architect, who evaluates the deliverable requirements work products for system feasibility.
• Test Engineer, who evaluates the requirements work products for testability.
• Process Engineer, who evaluates the requirements work products for conformance to the associated standards and evaluation checklists.
• Quality Engineer, who evaluates the work products for quality and conformance to the endeavor process and relevant conventions.
• Technical Writer,
  • 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:
    • Configuration Management Team.
    • Management Team.
    • Quality Team.

Tasks

A Configuration Management Evaluation Team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an incremental, iterative, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Quality Engineering:
  • Quality Control – Configuration Management Evaluation
    Evaluate the configuration management work products
  • Quality Assurance – In-Progress Review
    Audit the architecture process regarding:
    • The Configuration management activity, work flows, tasks, and techniques.
    • The standards, templates, and evaluation checklists for the configuration management work products.

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

Work Products

A Configuration Management 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.
• An architecture evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team method component.