Design review

This article is about the general concept of design reviews. For Design Reviews in DoD and NASA, see Design review (US Government).

A design review is a milestone within a product development process whereby a design is evaluated against its requirements in order to verify the outcomes of previous activities and identify issues before committing to - and if need to be re-prioritise - further work. The ultimate design review, if successful, therefore triggers the product launch or product release.

The conduct of design reviews is compulsory as part of design controls, when developing products in certain regulated contexts such as medical devices.

By definition, a review must include persons who are external to the design team.

Contents of a design review

In order to evaluate a design against its requirements, a number of means may be considered, such as:

Physical tests.
Engineering simulations.
Examinations (Walk-through).

Timing of design reviews

Most formalised systems engineering processes recognise that the cost of correcting a fault increases as it progresses through the development 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 of localisation, environmental) or during various stages of the design process.

See also:

Design review (US Government)

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Subfields	Aerospace engineering Biological systems engineering Configuration management Earth systems engineering and management Electrical engineering Enterprise systems engineering Performance engineering Reliability engineering Safety engineering

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People	James S. Albus Wernher von Braun Harold Chestnut Arthur David Hall III Derek Hitchins Robert E. Machol Simon Ramo Joseph Francis Shea John N. Warfield

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