Reuse Strategy

Definitions

Reuse Strategy

the architecture work product produced during business engineering that documents the customer organization’s strategy for reuse of components across applications

Objectives

The objectives of the reuse strategy are to:

• Document the customer organization’s plans for reusing work products (e.g., intellectual assets and components) across multiple projects.

Benefits

The typical benefits of the reuse strategy are:

• The amount of reuse is increased across applications.
• Application costs and schedules decrease.

Contents

The typical contents of the reuse strategy are:

• Reuse Goals
• Reuse Scope
• Reuse Organization, Teams, Roles, and Responsibilities
• Reuse Activities and Tasks
• Reuse Work Products
• Conclusion
• Appendices:
  • Major Issues
  • TBDs
  • Assumptions

Stakeholders

The typical stakeholders of the reuse strategy are:

• Producers:
  • Business Strategy Team
• Evaluators:
  • Strategy Inspection Team
  • Customer Organization, which inspects the content for feasibility and appropriateness
• Approvers:
  • Technical Leader
  • Project Manager
  • Customer Representative
• Maintainer: Business Strategy Team
• Users:
  • Customer's reuse organization, which uses the reuse strategy to plan its activities.
  • Development organization's reuse organization, which uses the reuse strategy to plan its activities.

Phases

• Initiation: Started
• Construction: Completed
• Delivery: Maintained
• Usage: Maintained
• Retirement: Archived

Preconditions

The reuse strategy typically can be started if the following preconditions hold:

• The initiation phase is started.
• The business strategy team has been staffed and trained in reuse engineering.

Inputs

The typical inputs to the reuse strategy include:

• Work Products:
  • Glossary
  • Customer Analysis
  • Business Vision Statement
  • Business Object Model
  • Business Process Model
• Stakeholders:
  • Business Domain Experts

Guidelines

• This is a living document that is developed incrementally and iteratively in parallel with other documents.

Conventions

The reuse strategy is typically constrained by the following conventions:

• Work Flow
• Content and Format Standard
• MS Word Template
• XML Template
• Inspection Checklist

Examples

• Example Reuse Strategy