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| <mainDescription><p>
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| OpenUP is most useful for four primary groups of users:
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| Software development practitioners (developers, project managers, analysts, and testers) working together as a
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| project team
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| </li>
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| Stakeholders
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| </li>
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| Software process engineers
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| </li>
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| <li>
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| Instructors
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| </li>
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| </ul>
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| Software development practitioners can find guidance on what is required of them in the roles defined by OpenUP. Each
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| role describes a set of activities and artifacts for which the role is responsible. Guidance is also given on how those
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| roles collaborate.
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| Stakeholders will find guidance on what they may expect from the software development team, and how the software will
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| be created. OpenUP also describes the stakeholders' responsibilities, and states how they can best work with the
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| development team to obtain software that meets their needs.
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| Software process engineers can use EPF Composer to extend and modify OpenUP. Modification may be as simple as altering
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| templates for work products, or as sophisticated as adding activities necessary for creating software in your specific
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| environment (such as audits for safety-critical systems). In addition to modifying method content, process engineers
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| can add, change, or remove process flows to add organization-specific capability patterns.
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| </p>
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| OpenUP is appropriate for academic organizations also. As an open source process, it can serve as the basis for
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| software engineering courses and, when combined with the EPF Composer, courses in software process engineering.<br />
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