Hardware Development Team

Definition

Hardware Development Team

a team that produces the hardware components of a system

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

• Design the hardware components.
• Fabricate the hardware components.
• Test the individual hardware components.

A hardware development team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team method component.

Roles

A Hardware Development Team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Hardware Designer, who designs the hardware components and leads the team.
• Hardware Engineer, who engineers the hardware components.
• Test Engineer, who performs unit and hardware integration testing.
• Technical Writer, who produces and maintains the hardware design document and associated models.

Tasks

A Hardware Development Team typically performs the following team-specific hardware-related tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Hardware Component Design:
  • Design Reuse
  • Design Production
  • Design Refactoring
  • Design Documentation
• Hardware Component Implementation:
  • Acquisition
  • Fabrication
• Hardware Component Integration:
  • Installation
  • Configuration
  • Component Integration
• Unit and Hardware Integration Testing:
  • Test Reuse
  • Test Design
  • Test Implementation
  • Test Execution
  • Test Reporting

A Hardware Development Team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team method component.

Work Products

A Hardware Development Team typically produces all or part of the following work products:

• Design Set:
  • Hardware Design Document
• Implementation Set:
  • Hardware Components
• Test Set including the associated unit and hardware integration test work products:
  • Test Harnesses
  • Test Scripts
  • Test Suites
  • Test Cases
  • Test Data

Guidelines

• Only staff the hardware development team if hardware components are to be produced.
• The same person often performs the hardware designer and hardware engineer roles.