Review process model

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2 Review meeting
🞑 In the meeting, the reviewers give their comments based on the logs

🞑 The comments may be pertain to a : Defect, Work simplification &

Maintainability
🞑 Moderator ensures that the discussion remains focused and
productive. The recorder scribes all the defects and review statistics
in the form of review log
 Rework
🞑 Author addresses all the issues raised by the reviewers by
carrying out the necessary modification and prepares a
rejoinder to all the points scribed in the review log
🞑 Rejoinder is circulated among all the reviewers
🞑 In a final meeting the reviewers check whether all the issues have
been resolved satisfactorily. At the end of the meeting, final summary
report of the review is prepared
23 Data collection
 Data representing the results of the meetings is recorded.
 In addition to recording all the defects ,the data about the time spent by the
reviewers in the review activity must also be captured.
 The different reports in which the review data are captured are as follows
🞑 Review Preparation Log
 Each reviewer prepares a review preparation log
 The different items recorded by the reviewer are
 Data about the defects, their locations , their criticality and total time
spent
🞑 Review Log : The defects which are agreed by the author are logged
 The defect logs are crucial record since these help in tracking defects to
closure
🞑 Review Summary Report : Summarizes the review data and presents the
overall picture of the review
 Contains information about total defects and the amount of time spent
24 Project Termination Review
 Project termination reviews are important for
successful, failed as well as prematurely abandoned projects
 It marks the official closure of the project
 It provides important opportunities to learn from past mistakes
as well as success
 Reasons for project termination before the natural closing date
🞑 Project is completed successfully and handed over to the customer
🞑 Incomplete requirements
🞑 Lack of resources
🞑 Some key technologies used in the project have become obsolete
🞑 Economics of the project has changed
25 Project termination process
 Project Survey
🞑 The objective is to collect various types of information pertaining to
the project
🞑 An electronic survey is usually very effective
🞑 The information is collected through a set of questionnaire to bring
out important process and management.
 Collection of Objective Information
🞑 A critical aspect of the review is to collect various project metrics.
The metrics include cost, schedule & quality reviews
 Debriefing Meeting
🞑 This preparatory meeting helps to ensure the final review
meeting focuses on the most relevant aspects
🞑 Only the seniors members of the team participate
26 Project termination process
🞑 The meeting helps to obtain some direct feedback about the
project from the senior members of the team
 Final project review
🞑 This meeting addresses various issues like
 Projectplanning and tracking, preliminary phases,
configuration
management, verification and validation
 Result publication
🞑 Project leader summarizes the positive and negative findings
as well as prescription for improvement
🞑 Summary is published for necessary correction for future
projects
27 Visualizing Progress
 After collecting the data about the progress of the project, a manager
needs to present the data.
 Some methods of presenting the picture of a project and its future are
🞑 Gantt chart
 Essentially an activity bar chart indicating the scheduled activity
dates and duration with activity floats
🞑 Slip chart
 Provides a more striking visual induction of the activities
 The more the slip line bends, the greater the variation from the
plan. Very jagged slip line indicates a need for
rescheduling
🞑 Timeline
 A method of recording and displaying the way in
 Slip
Gantt charts charts
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29 The timeline

Records the way targets have

changed throughout the project
30 Cost monitoring
 A project could be late because the staff originally
committed, have not been deployed
 In this case the project will be behind time but under

budget
 A project could be on time but only because

additional resources have been added and so by over

budget
 Need to monitor both achievements and costs
31 Earned value analysis
 Planned value (PV) or Budgeted cost of work
scheduled (BCWS) –
🞑 The assigned value
🞑The original budgeted cost for the item
 Earned value (EV) or Budgeted cost of work

performed (BCWP) –
🞑The total value credited to a project at any
point of time
32 Earned value – an example
 Tasks
🞑 Specify module 5 days
🞑 Code module 8 days
🞑 Test module 6 days

 At the beginning of day 20, Planned Value (PV) = 19 days

 If everything but testing completed, EV = 13 days
 Schedule variance = EV-PV i.e. 13-19 = -6
 Schedule performance indicator (SPI) = EV/PV
i.e 13/19 = 0.68
33 Earned value analysis – actual co
 Actual cost (AC) is also known as Actual cost of work
performed (ACWP)
 In previous example, if
🞑 ‘Specify module’ actually took 3 days (planned 5 days)

🞑 ‘Code module’ actually took 4 days (planned 8 days)

 Actual cost = 7 days
 Cost variance (CV) = EV-AC i.e. 13-7 = 6 days
 Cost performance indicator (CPI) = EV/AC i.e 13/7 = 1.86
 Positive CV or CPI > 1.00 means project under budget or the work
is completed better than planned