Optimizing Systems Engineering Specification Quality Control Processes

Inspection is a proven technique for achieving quality control of specifications and, identifying associated process improvements. In fact, Inspection can be applied to any discipline which produces documents. It has been applied with excellent results to hardware engineering (e.g. aircraft and electronics), management and sales contracts documentation. Software Inspections are widely known within the software industry, but most organizations do not make the most of them. This is because many people misunderstand and misinterpret Inspection. This paper aims to provide some direction as to how to get the most value from your Inspections.