• To ensure that a product will meet business, user and specialist requirements



  • To assess the conformity of a product against set criteria



  • To provide a platform for product improvement



  • To involve all those who have a vested interest in the product



  • To provide a mechanism for management control


Five benefits of introducing effective formal inspection in an organization.



  • Independent nature of the review



  • To find errors and locate inconsistencies and ambiguities early in the product’s design stage



  • Improving the quality of the inspected work



  • Early detection of errors



  • To provide a degree of project control. The inspectors can monitor the transition from one product to the next.