Hardware Evaluation Team

Definition

Hardware Evaluation Team

a team that performs evaluates the deliverable hardware design, implementation, and testing work products and the processes that were used to perform them

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

• Evaluate the hardware design document.
• Evaluate the hardware components.
• Evaluate the related test work products.

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

Roles

The hardware evaluation team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the hardware design and components for technical quality.
• System Architect, who evaluates the hardware design for quality and conformance to the system architecture.
• Hardware Architect, who evaluates the hardware design for quality and conformance to the hardware architecture.
• Hardware Engineer, who evaluates the hardware components for the quality of the implementation.
• Test Engineer, who evaluates the hardware components for adequate unit and integration testing.
• 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:
    • Hardware Development Team.
    • Management Team.
    • Quality Team.

Tasks

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

• Quality Engineering:
  • Quality Control - Hardware Evaluation
    Evaluate the hardware 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 hardware work products.

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

Work Products

The architecture 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.