Standard categories
Method content and process elements are organized into logical
categories. The categories can appear in your final, published Web site as
navigation views. There are two types of category: standard and custom.
Types of standard categories
Standard categories
provide a means to categorize content according to the best practices for
creating structured methods. Standard categories are linked to a specific
method content type. For example, disciplines can only contain tasks.
There
are five types of standard categories:
- Disciplines
- A discipline is a collection of tasks that are related to a major area
of concern within the overall IT environment. For example, on a software development
project, it is common to perform certain requirements tasks in close coordination
with analysis and design tasks. Separating these tasks into different disciplines
makes the tasks easier to understand. You can organize disciplines by using
discipline groupings.
- Domains
- A domain is a logical hierarchy of related work products that are grouped
together based on timing, resources, or relationship. A domain categorizes
many work products, but a work product belongs to only one domain. You can
divide domains into sub-domains.
- Work Product Kinds
- A work product can have many work product kinds. For instance, you might
want to have a series of work product kinds that correspond to the overall
intent of work products, such as specification, plan, or model.
- Role Sets
- A role set is used to group roles that have certain commonalities together.
For example, you can set up a role set named "Analyst" to group together roles
such as Business Process Analyst, System Analyst, and Requirements Specifier.
Each of these roles work with similar techniques and have overlapping skills,
but might be responsible for performing certain tasks and creating certain
work products. Role sets can be organized by using role set groupings.
- Tools
- The tools type is a container for tool mentors. Tools can also provide
general descriptions of a tool and its general capabilities.