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Adesign review is a milestone within aproduct development process whereby adesign is evaluated against itsrequirements in order to verify the outcomes of previous activities and identify issues before committing to—and, if need be, to re-prioritise—further work.[1] The ultimate design review, if successful, therefore triggers the product launch or product release.
The conduct of design reviews is compulsory as part ofdesign controls, when developing products in certain regulated contexts such asmedical devices.
By definition, a review must include persons who are external to the design team.
In order to evaluate adesign against its requirements, a number of means may be considered, such as:
Most formalisedsystems engineering processes recognise that the cost of correcting a fault increases as it progresses through thedevelopment process. Additional effort spent in the early stages of development to discover and correct errors is therefore likely to be worthwhile. Design reviews are example of such an effort.Therefore, a number of design reviews may be carried out, for example to evaluate the design against different sets of criteria (consistency,usability, ease oflocalisation, environmental) or during various stages of the design process.
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