A delivery process describes a complete and integrated approach
for performing a specific type of project. A delivery process describes what
is produced, how it is produced and the required staffing for the entire project
lifecycle.
A delivery process is created for a particular type of project
to reflect the specific planning and project management needs.
Before
creating a delivery process:
- Select a method plug-in to hold
your process.
- Find or create a process package.
There are several ways to populate a process with method elements:
- By incorporating individual method elements by dragging the elements onto
an activity in the process.
- By including already defined capability patterns.
- By including parts of already defined capability patterns.
- By creating descriptors directly in the process, which are either unrelated
to any method content or related to method content at a later point in time.
- After you select or create a process package, right-click the process
package.
- Click .
- In the Name field, type a name for the delivery
process and then select a default configuration from the drop-down list. Your process can contain content from many different method plug-ins,
therefore, you need to define a configuration that defines the visible set
of elements and relationships when the process is authored. This process authoring
configuration is referred to as the default configuration for the process
and should define the largest reasonable set of method plug-ins, content packages,
and other processes from the method library that will be referred to by the
process at some point.
- Click OK. The process is created and the
process editor opens.
- In the process editor under the Description tab,
document your process using the available text fields.
Tip: You
can use the
rich text editor to
edit or enter the text for any field that has the rich text editor icon

.
Click the symbol to access the rich text editor. Click the icon again to close
the rich text editor.
- Determine your primary process authoring view. You develop a process
using three different views:
- Work Breakdown Structure: Define a work breakdown structure in
your process. Create iterations and activities first, and then populate your
activities by applying tasks from your Method Content. For more information,
see Develop a Work Breakdown Structure.
- Team Allocation: Define which teams and roles will participate
in activities and find responsible work products and tasks from there. For
more information, see Develop
a Team Allocation Structure.
- Work Product Usage: Define which work products should be created
in activities and find tasks and roles from there. For more information, see
Develop a Work Product
Usage Structure.
- Apply a Capability Pattern or
capability pattern parts to the delivery process.