Training Evaluation Team

Definition

Training Evaluation Team

the team that performs a technical evaluation of the deliverable training work products and the process used to produce them

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of the Training Evaluation Team are to:

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

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

Roles

A training evaluation team typically consists of persons playing one or more of the following roles:

• Technical Leader, who facilitates the evaluation meeting and evaluates the training work products for technical quality.
• Requirements Engineer, who evaluates for requirements training materials.
• Architect, who evaluates for architecture training materials.
• Hardware Designer, who evaluates for hardware design training materials.
• Software Designer, who evaluates for software design training materials.
• Programmer, who evaluates the programming training work products.
• Quality Engineer, who evaluates the training work products for quality and conformance to the relevant conventions.
• Others as appropriate, depending on the training subject matter.
• Technical Writer, who acts as scribe at the evaluation meeting, summarizes the evaluation team’s findings in the evaluation summary report, and delivers the report to the training team.

Tasks

A training evaluation team typically performs the following team-specific responsibilities:

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

A training evaluation team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

The training evaluation team typically produces the following work products:

• Quality Set:
  • Evaluation Report, which documents an individual evaluateor’s findings.
  • Evaluation Summary Report, which summarizes the finding of the entire evaluation team.

Guidelines

• Evaluations should not devolve into walkthroughs. The work products should stand on their own and not require their authors to explain them.
• To the extent practical, the developers of a work product should:
  • Not be the only evaluators of it.
  • Also informally evaluate 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 projects.
• A training evaluation team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team method component.