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| &nbsp;
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../xp/guidances/concepts/whole_team.html" guid="7.89591827591278E-306">Whole Team</a>
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_customer_team.html" guid="2.9889538140050517E-306">XP Customer Team</a>
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| <a class="elementLink" href="./../../xp/guidances/supportingmaterials/xp_developer_team.html" guid="8.608243854485154E-306">XP Developer Team</a>
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| <b>XP Roles</b>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../xp/roles/xp_customer.html" guid="{3C90DD4F-CFDB-4111-922D-3B840B8942DE}">Customer</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../xp/roles/xp_programmer.html" guid="{08A6AF28-69B1-42DC-A957-2E6CDCB436C1}">Programmer</a>
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| <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../xp/roles/xp_coach.html" guid="{9C440605-FF0E-4D37-A774-BBF8B5F47AB6}">Coach</a>
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| <h3>
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| XP Roles and Tasks
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| <p>
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| XP defines a more limited set of roles and tasks than Unified Process. The XP roles usually have much broader scope
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| than Unified Process roles. There is a definite push in XP to move away from specialization where only one person on a
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| team has knowledge of specific and critical parts of the system or technology. The consequence is that the XP roles
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| usually map to more than one Unified Process role. Some Unified Process roles/tasks/artifacts do not map to anything in
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| XP as XP has a somewhat smaller scope than Unified Process.
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| <h4>
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| Definition of Roles and Tasks in Unified Process
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| <b>Roles</b> are typically realized by an individual or a set of individuals working together as a team. A project team
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| member typically fulfills many different roles. <b>Roles</b> are not individuals; instead, they describe how
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| individuals behave in the business and what responsibilities these individuals have. While most roles are realized by
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| people within the organization, people outside of the development organization play an important role. A <b>role</b> is
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| an abstract definition of a set of <b>tasks</b> performed and <b>artifacts</b> generated.
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| <b>Roles</b> have a set of cohesive&nbsp;<b>tasks</b> to be performed. These&nbsp;<b>tasks</b> are closely related and
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| functionally coupled and are often best performed by the same individual.&nbsp;Tasks are closely related to
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| <b>artifacts</b>. Artifacts provide the input and output for the&nbsp;tasks and the mechanism by which information is
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| communicated between tasks.
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