Environments Team

Definition

Environments Team

a team that produces and maintains one or more related environments

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Environments Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Environments Team are to:

• Determine the environment needs of the:
  • Endeavor:
    • Enterprise
    • Program
    • Project
  • Center:
    • Contact Center(s)
    • Data Center(s)
    • Reuse Center(s)
• Evaluate and select component products and their vendor organizations.
• Produce and maintain the endeavor’s or center’s:
  • Management Environment(s).
  • Development Environments.
  • Production Environments.

An environments team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

An environments team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• System Architect, who architects the environments and acts as team leader.
• Database Architect, who helps evaluate and select database management systems.
• Hardware Architect, who architects (e.g., evaluates, selects) the hardware components of the environments.
• Software Architect, who architects (e.g., determines, evaluates, selects) the software components of the environments.
• Hardware Engineer, who engineers (e.g., acquires, fabricates, installs, integrates, and configures) the hardware components.
• Process Engineer, who provides requirements for and helps evaluate the environments' software tools.
• Integration Engineer, who integrates the environments' data, hardware, and software components.
• Toolsmith, who develops, evaluates, acquires, customizes, and/or configures the environments’ software tools.
• Technical Writer, who documents the design of the environments and the results of the tool selection process.

Tasks

An environments team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Environments Engineering:
  • Environments Needs Assessment
  • Vendor and Tool Evaluation
  • Vendor and Tool Selection
  • Tool Acquisition
  • Environments Design
  • Environments Production
  • Environments Maintenance

An environments team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

An environments team typically produces all or part of the following work products:

• Environments Set:
  • Documents:
    • Environments Needs Assessment
    • Project Environments Description Document
    • Product Selection Report
  • Environments:
    • Management Environment
    • Development Environments:
      • Reuse Environment
      • Engineering Environment
      • Multimedia Environment
      • Integration Environment
      • Test Environment
      • Staging Environment
    • Production Environments:
      • Client Environment
      • Contact Center Environment
      • Content Management Environment
      • Data Center Environment

Guidelines

• Each endeavor may have its own environments team, or one environments team may support one or more programs of related projects.
• The development organization or customer organization may have a reuse organization that is supported by its own environments team.