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Michael Fagan is the CEO of Michael Fagan Associates, and the creator of the Fagan Inspection and Defect-Free Process. He created the Fagan inspection process while he was a Development Manager with IBM in the 1970s. This process helps organizations to improve software quality, to reduce cycle time, to reduce costs and to improve productivity.
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A defective process may lead to downstream defects in the work products.
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O’Regan, G. (2013). Michael Fagan. In: Giants of Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-5340-5_24
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