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| A Process Contribution is a special Process that externally defines additions and changes to an existing Process |
| without directly modifying the existing Process. It achieves this by describing these additions and changes in a |
| separate Process structure. This structures' elements relate to the other Process's elements using "Contributes" and |
| "Replace" specializations. Process Contributions are normally packaged with Method Plug-ins that extend existing Method |
| Plug-in with new capabilities. |
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| A Process Contribution is a kind of "process plug-in" that plugs additional breakdown structures into an existing |
| Process and therefore updates it afterwards with new or changed capabilities. For example, the J2EE Plug-in plugs into |
| the technology independent main Plug-in. It may update the generic Delivery Processes defined in that Plug-in with J2EE |
| specific Activities. A respective ".NET Plug-in" could define similar updates relevant for that technology platform. A |
| process practitioner could then apply the chosen Plug-in, thereby generating a technology specific Process, but keeping |
| maintenance of his/her Processes minimal, because technology specific parts are kept separate and will be applied on |
| demand only. |
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