BACKGROUND External inspections are widely used in health care as a means of improving the quality of care. However, the way external inspections affect the involved organization is poorly understood. A better understanding of these processes is important to improve our understanding of the varying effects of external inspections in different organizations. In turn, this can contribute to the d...

Software inspection is one of software engineering’s best practices for detecting and removing defects early in the development process. However, the prevalence of manual activities and face-to-face meetings within software inspections hinder their applicability in the context of global software development, where software engineering activities are spread across multiple sites and even multipl...

Reducing software development cycle time without sacrificing quality is crucial to the continued success of most software development organizations. Software companies are investing time and money in reengineering processes incorporating improvements aimed at reducing their cycle time. Unfortunately, the impact of process improvements on the cycle time of complex software processes is not well ...

In the present work inspectors used Motivational Interviewing (MI) to promote environmentally sustainable behaviour in inspectees. MI is a counselling method with scientific support for various health behaviour changes. Inspectors (n = 32) in four Swedish municipalities received training in MI over a yearlong period. Their MI competency as well as their experience of using MI in routine inspect...

This paper empirically explores the incidence of labor inspections across firms in 72 developing countries. Given the relatively little knowledge on the behavior of labor inspection agencies, our objective is to present a collection of stylized facts on the incidence of enforcement. Our findings consistently show that larger firms are more likely to be inspected than smaller firms. Interestingl...

This paper presents a System Dynamics (SD) model of an assembly system in ramp-up with special focus on inspections. The time in-between product development and stable series production is characterized by dynamically changing conditions referring to the product, processes and the assembly system’s organization. Thus, SD serves as an excellent method to model the system’s behavior within the ra...

Software inspections are a software engineering “best practice” for defect detection and rework reduction. In this paper, we describe an empirical evaluation with using a tool aiming to provide Internet groupware support for distributed software inspections. The tool is based on a restructured inspection process where inspection meetings have the only goal of removing false positives rather tha...

Software inspections have attracted much attention over the last 25 years. It is a method for static analysis of artefacts during software development. However, few studies look at inspections of entity-relationship diagrams (ER-diagrams), and in particular an evaluation of the number of defects, number of false-positives and the types of defects that are found by most reviewers. ER-diagrams ar...

I have been promoting the message in the title of this article since I became head of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration in 2009. Although workplace injury and fatality rates have decreased dramatically since OSHA was created, there remain voices doubting the effectiveness of OSHA’s inspections. Now, there is a substantial body of empirical evidence showing that enforcement has a...