You know those awful television documentaries in which the presenters (it’s usually a double act) continually display their inability to ask interesting questions and probe beneath the surface? While they exclaim “Wow!” at the start of every sentence, we learn the what, but never the why or the how.

I thought it might be fun to imagine an inspection of a Computing department conducted as one of those documentaries. What might it look like?

Fortunately, such an inability to explore interesting and sensible questions would not be found in a real inspection.