Inspections and historical data in teaching software engineering project course

Software engineering project course document inspection data have been collected from meeting minutes. The derived statistics are used in inspections, in project management lectures, and also in software engineering training outside university. The use of historical project data, such as statistics on working hours, and comments from participants in previous courses, have been considered very valuable in teaching, by both the students and course personnel. These are the two specialities that have been used for five years at the Institute of Software Systems. This paper gives some hints to project course personnel, for what kind of useful data could be collected easily.