Reuse Engineer

Definition

Reuse Engineer

the role that is played when a person intentionally engineers work products to be reusable

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Reuse Engineer is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineer
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical role-specific responsibilities of a Reuse Engineer are to:

• Produce the organizational reuse repositories.
• Identify, evaluate, certify, and maintain reusable work products.
• Support endeavors searching for reusable components.

Reuse Engineer typically inherits the general role responsibilities from the Role method component.

Expertise

To fulfill these responsibilities, reuse engineers typically should have the following expertise, training, and knowledge:

• Deep understanding of both knowledge, documentation, and configuration management.
• A bachelor’s degree in software engineering, computer science, or the equivalent.

Tasks

Reuse engineers typically perform the following role-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Reuse Engineering:
  • Reuse Repository Production
  • Reusable Work Product Identification
  • Reusable Work Product Preparation
  • Reusable Work Product Evaluation
  • Reusable Work Product Certification
  • Reusable Work Product Maintenance
  • Endeavor Support
• Documentation Tasks (updating reusable documentation):
  • Digital Brand Documentation
  • Training Materials Production
  • Requirements Specification
  • Architecture Documentation
  • Design Documentation
• Implementation Tasks (updating reusable data and software components):
  • Data Conversion
  • Data Generation
  • Programming
  • Debugging

Reuse Engineer typically inherit common role tasks from the role method component.

Teams

Reuse engineers typically perform these tasks as members of the following teams:

• Reuse Team

Work Products

As members of these teams, reuse engineers typically produce all or part of the following work products:

• Reusable documentation
• Reusable software components
• Reusable data components

Guidelines

• Reuse is more likely to be achieved if there are persons that are assigned full time to ensuring that it happens.
• As valuable intellectual property, reusable assets need to be maintained and managed.
• This role typically inherits the common team guidelines from the roles method component.