Reuse Team

Definition

Reuse Team

the team that supports reuse within a development, maintenance, or subcontractor organization

Classification

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

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

Responsibilities

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

• Produce the organizational reuse repositories.
• Identify potentially reusable components.
• Turn potentially reusable components into actual, certified reusable components.
• Maintain the reusable components in the reuse repository.
• Support endeavors searching for reusable components.

A reuse team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

A reuse team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Reuse Center Manager, who manages the reuse repository and leads the team.
• Reuse Librarian, who provides reuse consulting to other teams and technically leads the team.
• Reuse Engineer, who engineers work products to be reusable.

Tasks

A reuse team typically performs the following team-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

The reuse team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

A reuse team typically produces the following work products:

• All reusable work products

Guidelines

• It is usually a good idea to temporarily staff the reuse engineers with engineers with recent project experience so that:
  • They can ensure that reuse support is practical.
  • They take a reuse mindset and experience back to the projects when they roll off their reuse duties.
• Reuse team staff should spend 100% of their effort on reuse tasks. If they have project development duties, they will typically be pressured to ignore their reuse duties due to project schedule pressures.
• A reuse team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.