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- From: claird@NeoSoft.com (Cameron Laird)
- Subject: Author-less inspections (was: Software Inspections. How many does it take?)
- Organization: NeoSoft Communications Services -- (713) 684-5900
- Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 14:24:52 GMT
- Message-ID: <BzEqpI.5yp@NeoSoft.com>
- References: <1992Dec14.192008.15480@gallant.apple.com> <BzB9J2.2q2E@austin.ibm.com>
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- In article <BzB9J2.2q2E@austin.ibm.com> dugal@austin.ibm.com (Doug Gray) writes:
- .
- .
- .
- >I'm not sure I see how that holds. I would think that the author's ego would be a
- >factor whether reviewed by 1 or by 20. Their work is still being put on the line. I
- >can see how having the author be a part of the review can be a problem, though.
- >Generally, it seems that having the author as distanced as possible from the review
- >is the best idea.
- .
- .
- .
- I have no experience with reviews in which the
- author(s) is (are) *not* present, but I like
- the idea; is there anyone who can report on how
- that works in practice?
-
- My attraction to this has nothing to do with
- "ego"; I just want to have the documents stand
- on their own, without the explanations that the
- author(s) inevitably carri(es).
- --
-
- Cameron Laird
- claird@Neosoft.com (claird%Neosoft.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 267 7966
- claird@litwin.com (claird%litwin.com@uunet.uu.net) +1 713 996 8546
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