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  <mainDescription>&lt;p>&#xD;
    The Intent layer deals with how to channel the intent of stakeholders to the rest of the development team, to ensure&#xD;
    that validated builds with incremental capabilities reflect stakeholder intents. This is done by capturing and&#xD;
    communicating the &lt;a class=&quot;elementLinkWithUserText&quot; href=&quot;./../../openup/workproducts/vision_2E71B03C.html&quot; guid=&quot;_0WVxcMlgEdmt3adZL5Dmdw&quot;>vision&lt;/a> to all team members, and by translating the vision into test cases and&#xD;
    requirements of different types. This allows the team to understand what capabilities need to be delivered to address&#xD;
    stakeholder intent.&#xD;
&lt;/p>&#xD;
&lt;p>&#xD;
    You find the most tasks for the Intent layer in the &lt;strong>Requirements&lt;/strong> discipline, and the task to&#xD;
    create test cases in the &lt;strong>Test&lt;/strong> discipline. The corresponding work products are found under&#xD;
    &lt;strong>Requirements&lt;/strong> and &lt;strong>Test&lt;/strong> domains.&#xD;
&lt;/p>&#xD;
&lt;p>&#xD;
    The Intent layer is built upon the foundational &lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../openup/customcategories/collab_commun_layer_A3CDA6EF.html&quot; guid=&quot;_r8cVIEmbEdu0xduwSKie-w&quot;>Communication and Collaboration Layer&lt;/a>. That layer constitutes the backbone of OpenUP&#xD;
    in order to reflect the following:&#xD;
&lt;/p>&#xD;
&lt;ul>&#xD;
    &lt;li>&#xD;
        All roles in OpenUP are involved in intent development to ensure that, as a minimum, all team members properly&#xD;
        understand stakeholders’ intent.&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
    &lt;li>&#xD;
        Make sure that the best practices for collaborative development provided in the collaboration layer guides any work&#xD;
        related to intent.&#xD;
    &lt;/li>&#xD;
&lt;/ul>&#xD;
&lt;p>&#xD;
    The intent layer is written in such a way that your organization can modify it to fit your style of development&#xD;
    and stakeholder collaboration, without necessarily impacting how you deal with the other layers (&lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../openup/customcategories/management_layer_DF9A1A7F.html&quot; guid=&quot;_Aoz2gEmcEdu0xduwSKie-w&quot;>Management Layer&lt;/a>&lt;a class=&quot;elementLinkWithUserText&quot; href=&quot;./../../openup/customcategories/management_layer_DF9A1A7F.html&quot; guid=&quot;_Aoz2gEmcEdu0xduwSKie-w&quot;> &lt;/a>and &lt;a class=&quot;elementLink&quot; href=&quot;./../../openup/customcategories/solution_layer_8AA9BF96.html&quot; guid=&quot;_HEVvgEmcEdu0xduwSKie-w&quot;>Solution Layer&lt;/a>).&#xD;
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