Roles and Activities > Manager Role Set > Project Reviewer > Iteration Acceptance Review
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The Iteration Acceptance Review is a formal review between the project team and a customer representative. The objective of the review is to reach agreement that each of the iteration evaluation criteria has been satisfied, and that the project is ready to proceed with the next iteration.
The Iteration Acceptance Review meeting is a meeting between a customer representative and the project's management team (the project manager, plus the team leads for the various functional areas of the project team). Representative(s) of the Project Review Authority may also be involved.
Once the attendees of the meeting have been identified, set a date/time for the meeting to take place. It is important that you provide sufficient lead time to allow the participants to review the materials that will be used as the basis for the approval decision.
Prior to the meeting, distribute the Iteration Assessment to the reviewers. Make sure it is sent out sufficiently in advance of the meeting to allow the reviewers adequate time to review it.
During the meeting, the attendees review the iteration evaluation criteria (as documented in the Iteration Plan), and the results of the Assess Iteration activity (as documented in the Iteration Assessment).
At the end of the meeting, the reviewers should make their approval decision. If some of the iteration criteria have not been satisfied, the group may still decide to accept the iteration and defer any corrective actions into the next iteration. You might take this approach if the deficiencies were minor. However, you might also defer corrective actions if the deficiencies were very significant (e.g. failure of a chosen technology infrastructure) and required a significant change of approach in the project. In this situation you would initiate a new iteration to deal with the issues arising.
The result of the Iteration Acceptance Review can be one of the following:
Iteration Accepted | The customer representative and the project team agree that the deliverables for this iteration are satisfactory, and the project should proceed to the next iteration. |
Iteration Not Accepted | The evaluation criteria have not been achieved, and corrective actions are required before the work of the iteration can be considered complete. |
If the iteration is not accepted, the project team should schedule the corrective actions that have been identified, and re-submit a revised Iteration Assessment for a follow-up review.
At the end of the meeting, a Review Record is completed capturing any
important discussions or action items, and recording the result of the Iteration
Acceptance Review. If the result was "not accepted" a follow-up
Iteration Acceptance Review Meeting should be scheduled for a later date.
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