In every endeavor that we undertake to improve the quality of our process in the software development life cycle we need to have the support and commitment of management. Majority of the people in management doesn’t always understand what software reviews are and the importance of it to shipping quality products on time. The following are the signs that your management is committed to software reviews:

• Providing the resources and time to develop, implement, and sustain an effective review process
• Setting policies, expectations, and goals about review practice
• Maintaining the practice of reviews even when projects are under time presure
• Ensuring that project schedules include time for reviews
• Making training available to the participants and attending the training themselves
• Never using review results to evaluate performance of individuals
• Holding people accountable for participating in reviews and for contributing constructively to them
• Publicly rewarding the early adopters of reviews to reinforce desired behaviors
• Running interference with other managers and customers who challenge the need for reviews
• Respecting the review team’s appraisal of a document’s quality
• Asking for status reports on how the program is working, what it costs, and the team’s benefits from reviews

This entry was posted on Friday, October 24th, 2008 at 1:27 pm and is filed under Reviews.