Review Meetings: Dr.V.Veera Balaji Kumar

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REVIEW MEETINGS

Dr.V.Veera Balaji Kumar


INTRODUCTION
• Reviews are effective means for improving
quality of products and productivity of
development teams.
• Walkthroughs and inspections
• Formal or informal
• Focus is on products not people.
Before the meeting
• Read the minutes of the earlier meeting
• Decide on the review items
• Determine participants
• Identify participant roles
▫ Review coordinator
▫ Scribe
• Announce the meeting and distribute materials
During the review meeting
• Last for 15 – 2 hours depending the review
items.
• Goal is flaw identification
▫ Identify the problem
▫ Identify the responsible person
▫ Rate the problem intensity
• Decide the follow-up action
▫ Unqualified acceptance
▫ Conditional acceptance
After the meeting
• The scribe distributes a review report
• The responsible persons work to resolve the
action items
• For conditional acceptance with major action
items a new review meeting must be arranged.
The review report
• A review report should include the following:
▫ Date
▫ Team name
▫ Product name
▫ Date of review meeting
▫ All participants and their roles
▫ Meeting objectives
▫ Action items : should include deficiencies,
omissions, contradictions and suggestions for
improvement.
Rules for reviews & walkthroughs
All participants must commit to the foll. Rules:
2. Prepare for the meeting by reviewing relevant
materials
3. Arrive on time and stay until it is finished
4. Represent the assigned roles as well as possible.
5. Be cooperative and tactful, don’t be defensive
6. Accept the authority of the coordinator
7. Participate in the follow-up actions
E.G  sales review meeting
• To update the sales staff on product knowledge,
selling skills, sales goals, marketing direction.
• Also used to reward, encourage and inspire
better performers.
• Dos
▫ Start with praise / success story
▫ Keep the staff in learning mode
▫ Sales tips
▫ Positive sales ‘war story’
▫ Fun at the end
Sales review meeting
• Don’ts
▫ Publicly make a bad example of one sales rep.
▫ Let someone else humiliate one of your sales rep.
▫ Concentrate on administrative policies and norms
▫ Don’t put on a meeting without a plan
▫ Don’t plan for fun
▫ Don’t allow it to be a ‘pity party’, rumors

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