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Formal Technical Reviews



Formal Technical Reviews (FTR) are processes used to improve work products through team effort. Any deliverable that is produced during the development life-cycle is eligible to be reviewed and should be at an early stage, beginning in the specification stage and recurring at each identifiable milestone.

A description of the review process as implemented at Fermilab is available as well as a list of reviews that have been held. Many additional references are available. Unless otherwise stated all Fermi FTR documentation will include the symbol shown at the top of this page to distinguish it from outside information.

The following guidelines should help in setting up an FTR.

  1. Choose the work product to be reviewed.
  2. Determine the type of FTR to use.
  3. Follow the description of the specific FTR in question.

It is important to remember when determining the type of FTR to use that no process will work for every organization. Feedback to the review process is an important part of having a process. The process evolves as experience and participant comments are folded back into it. In some sense it is not only the work product which is being reviewed but the review process as well. What is important is to develop an FTR process that works for your organization and to stick with that process when performing a review.

Specific information helpful when conducting FTRs is available for the following projects -


Help or information
on creating your own FTR process is available.


last updated: August 25, 1997

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