The major objectives of peer reviews are to find defects, omissions, and contradictions. Its aim is to improve the product; consider alternative implementations and exchange new techniques and style variations to the participants.
The planning phase enables the identification of the work products to be reviewed, the method to be used to perform the review and the requirements to be satisfied by each selected work product is identified.
The execution of peer review involves scheduling, preparing, and executing peer review meetings.
The reworking procedure will give the author the opportunity to rework the work product and resolve all raised issues in the review meeting. This procedure is optional.
In the follow-up procedure, corrections of all defects planned for rework are verified. The performers confirm that all open issues have been resolved, and all redline errors have been corrected, and closing out the review.