During the meeting, the attendees review the results of the product acceptance reviews and tests that are
reported in the Iteration Assessment. Using the product acceptance criteria from the Product Acceptance
Plan, the group determines the following:
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Physical audit results - has the customer received all the project deliverables?
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Functional audit results - did the results of the product acceptance reviews and test demonstrate that
the product satisfies its requirements?
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Has any required customer training been completed?
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If required, has on-site installation been successfully completed?
At the end of the meeting, the reviewers should make their approval decision. If some of the product
acceptance criteria have not been satisfied, the customer may decide to accept the product conditionally
upon certain corrective actions being taken. In this situation you may choose to initiate a new iteration
to deal with the issues arising.
The result of the Project Acceptance Review can be one of the following:
Project Accepted
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The customer representative agrees that the project deliverables have satisfied the acceptance
criteria, and the customer takes possession of the delivered product an support materials.
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Conditional Acceptance
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The customer representative agrees to accept the results of the project, subject to the completion
of specified corrective actions.
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Project Not Accepted
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The project fails to achieve the product acceptance criteria, and requires additional work and
another project acceptance cycle to be carried out.
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If the project is not accepted by the customer, the project team should schedule the corrective actions
that have been identified, and re-submit a revised Iteration Assessment for a follow-up review. In the case
of a "Conditional Acceptance", this assessment only need confirm that the specified corrective actions have
been completed. However, if the project was "not accepted", the full suite of product acceptance reviews
and tests should be performed.
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