The Software Engineering Checkup is very similar to a health check for humans:

1. Measurements	Medical		Software Engineering Checkup
	The assistant determines: age, weight, height, blood pressure, pulse rate, lab values from a blood sample.		Metrics programs determine between 10 and 100 key figures - depending on the used computer languages: volume/size and number of entities (files, classes), complexity, coupling, stability, changeability of the software, etc. List of used technologies, methods, and processes.

2. Analysis

Your MD listens to your heart and lungs, analyzes the ECG, tests your reflexes and your flexibility, has X-Rays made.

A software expert conducts interviews with the engineers and reads code and diagrams in order to determine a set of quality indicators: e.g. maintainability, fitness for purpose, bug frequency and density. Along the investigation a sketch of the software structure, an architectural diagram is created.

3. Assessment and Recommendations

Your MD lists the findings: "The BMI is normal, blood pressure is slightly too high, your lung volume is..." "I'd like to give you the following recommendations..."

As a conclusion you will get: 1) A detailed tech report with all findings. 2) A summary for management (without tech language!) including: - An assessment of the Software and the project. - Recommendations for setting (measurable) improvement goals. - Possible implementation variants.

A Software Engineering Checkup takes four working days of a senior expert at your site. After that the analysis starts and a detailed report of ca. 20 pages will be written. Within a month you will receive the technical report and a summary in the form of presentation slides.