Day 07 - Peer Review

Yesterday you were to prepare your solution for evaluation by another team. You were also to prepare a grading rubric by which you could effectively evaluate another team's work. Today we're going to conduct that evaluation, class-wide.

Peer review is the hallmark of professional innovation. If you have an idea that is truly good, it will withstand the critical eye of your fellow professionals. Even if it doesn't withstand that critical review, you are likely to obtain valuable feedback that will take you one step closer to success.

I recognize that some groups are not done researching and recording all of their item measurements. Time, however, is a limited resource. Engineers have deadlines to meet, and we are now right up against the testing schedule for this solution, so we have to evaluate what we have and make the most of it. If you end up evaluating the solution from a team that ran out of time before completing the project, recognize that your responsibility is to assess their work as if it were complete. You will follow up with supportive comments to help the other team have a clear pathway to get from where they are to where they ought to be. We are not here to make fun of groups for missing deadlines, but we must still have the discipline to observe those deadlines.

When documenting in your team doc, be sure to put your name as a header above your comments. Each member of the team is responsible for contributing something meaningful, so be sure to share opportunities evenly.