The Technical Reviewer role is responsible for contributing feedback to the review process. This role is involved in the category of review that deals with the technical review of project artifacts. This role is responsible for providing timely, appropriate feedback on the project artifacts being reviewed.

Other Relationships:  Extends: Reviewer

Topics

Technical Reviewer Review Record Review the Business Use-Case Model Review the Business Analysis Model Review Requirements Review the Architecture Review the Design Review Code


Description To top of page

Roles organize the responsibility for performing activities and developing artifacts into logical groups. Each role can be assigned to one or more people, and each person can fill one or more roles. When staffing the Technical Reviewer role, you need to consider both the skills required for the role and the different approaches you can take to assigning staff to the role.

Related Information To top of page

This section provides links to additional information related to this role.

 

Staffing To top of page

SkillsTo top of page

A person playing the Technical Reviewer role needs to have the appropriate skills and knowledge including:

  • Domain knowledge or subjective matter expertise appropriate to the artifact being reviewed
  • Either:
    • the skills required to produce the artifact being reviewed
    • the responsibility for other artifacts, the content of which this artifact is a transformation of or otherwise reflects in some manner.
    • the responsibility for subsequent activities in which this artifact will be consumed
Role assignment approachesTo top of page

The Technical Reviewer role is assigned to one or more individuals on a case-by-case basis, according to the artifact(s) being reviewed, the teams involved and the availability of staff members to take part in the review.

Further Reading To top of page

See [MCO97].



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