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Handwritten-Style Recording Makes Issues Easier to Understand
Improved Review and Deliverable Quality Are Also Expected
AISIN CORPORATION - Software Engineering Department
Background
Pass around reviews were introduced in addition to meeting style reviews to improve quality of reviews
Prior to a conference-style review, which is mainly intended to confirm the design content, a circular-style review is conducted to check for omissions and readability from higher-level documents.
Pre-introduction issues
It is difficult for the reviewee to understand what was pointed out
To improve software quality, the department emphasizes reviews and uses a two-stage review process. Before meeting-based reviews focused primarily on verifying design content, it conducts circulation-based reviews to eliminate omissions and readability issues identifiable from documents. With Excel minutes, it was difficult to record every issue clearly, making feedback hard for authors to understand. The team also tried handwriting comments on deliverables, but this made it difficult to retain records of corrections. As a result, omissions and other problems remained even after circulation reviews, making it difficult for meeting-based reviews to focus on design verification as intended.
Points of introduction
It can be recorded directly as if it were handwritten, and the content is conveyed reliably
Effects after introduction
Improved ability to record points without omissions and in an easy-to-understand way
Lightning Review enables handwritten-style recording, making it possible to communicate every issue clearly. Correction results can also be recorded in the same intuitive way and verified by comparing the before and after states, making confirmation accurate and straightforward. Both circulation-based and meeting-based reviews are now closer to their intended purpose, which is expected to improve deliverable quality.
Customer comments
| Industry classification | Transportation equipment |
|---|---|
| Description of Businesses | Manufacturing and sales of automotive parts (powertrains, etc.), household and energy-related products, etc. |
| Business Introduction | The company is engaged in a variety of businesses, including automotive parts, housing, and energy-related businesses. Among automotive components, automated transmissions have a global market share No.1. |
| Departments introducing | Software Engineering Department |
| Web website | https://www.aisin.com/jp/ |
Introducing Lightning Review has made it easy and reliable to communicate issues, which has greatly helped our development teams. We currently manage review issue status in Lightning Review, while issues and schedules are managed in separate tools, requiring managers to switch between multiple tools. If these could be managed in an integrated way, it would reduce managers’ workload. We hope Lightning Review continues to grow into a solution that comprehensively supports development and management.
AISIN CORPORATION
Mr. Nishiura, Software Engineering Department