Working with Processes: Create a Delivery Process

The goal of this exercise is to create a delivery process using core method content directly.

In process authoring we do not directly include the definitions of the core method elements in the work breakdown structure but rather create local references termed descriptors that refer back to the elements in the method library. Descriptors only contain additional information that is relevant to the local process.

Descriptors also provide a mechanism whereby relationships defined in core method authoring such as roles associated with a task, input and output, and work products, can be defined or changed locally within the process.

  1. Create a new Delivery Process in My Plug-in.

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    When you create a process you are asked to provide a name and select a default configuration to be used with the process. Use the name "My DP" and select My Basic Configuration. If you have not created this configuration, select OpenUP Basic.

     

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    A process has a hierarchy of activities and can include two types of activities:

     

     

    These structures can also be created in capability patterns. First of all, we'll create some activities directly and reuse some capability patterns later.

     

  2. To create the inception phase in the work breakdown structure view, right-click on the My DP icon, then select New Child, then select Phase. Call the Phase "Inception".

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  3. To create Requirements Management part of the process in Inception, in the Work Breakdown Structure view, right click Inception, and select New Child > Activity . Call this "Requirements".

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  4. To add Tasks to the Requirements activity, in the Configuration view, open the Requirements Discipline and then drag and drop the following tasks onto the Requirements Activity you have just created:

    5. When you include these Tasks in your process the associated Roles and Work Products are also included in the process.

     

  5. You can review the information for each method element in the Properties view.

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  6. Customize the steps from the Detail Requirements task for the Inception phase. Click on the Detail Requirements task descriptor, and open the Properties view. Click on the Steps tab. Remove the last two steps and close the Properties view.

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  7. Switch to the Browsing perspective and select Processes > Delivery Processes > My DP. The Work Breakdown Structure tab is displayed.

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  8. Click on Detail Requirements. Only the first two steps from the core method task are included.

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  9. Make other changes to the tasks in the delivery process you have just created and see how they are reflected when you view the process in the Browsing perspective.

 

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