[comp.software-eng] Managers at Inspections

kvb@spl1.spl.loral.com (Karen V. Bourgeois) (02/02/91)

	I believe that a company instituting inspections for the
first time should not have managers present at the meetings because
it would stifle the process considerably.  I have heard of only two
successful exceptions to this rule: 1) IBM opened its meetings to
managers only after the process was well instituted so that the right
cultural perspective existed (estimate over 10 years later) and 2) Gilb
had vice presidents and presidents present once or twice in order to sell
the idea of inspections.

	Karen V. Bourgeois, Loral Software Productivity Laboratory
	San Jose, CA
	kvb@spl1.spl.loral.com
	(Just learning like everyone else:)

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