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| The communication and collaboration layer is the foundation for OpenUP, reflecting the collaborative nature of the
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| process. It contains all of the roles in OpenUP: stakeholder, analyst, developer, architect, tester, project manager,
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| and any role. Team members taking on these roles need to collaborate to jointly capture and define the intent of
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| the stakeholders, to jointly develop the solution, and to jointly manage the project.
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| This foundational layer reflects and enables us to express the nature of self-organized teams, where team members must
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| broaden their perspectives of what their roles are and where their responsibilities end. As an example, the
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| analyst cannot say “I documented the requirements, now it is up to the developer to implement them.” The analyst's job
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| is not primarily to document requirements; it is to communicate that the stakeholder intent is understood and reflected
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| in a validated build. Documenting requirements may help you achieve that objective, but it is only one of
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| many available tools. Other tools you can use include working with developers on the design, working with testers on what
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| needs to be tested, and using the build to ensure that it does what the stakeholders need it to do.
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| To help the team collaborate effectively, the foundational collaboration layer provides you with a set of
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| practices organized by <a class="elementLinkWithUserText" href="./../../openup/customcategories/core_principles_category_8075133D.html" guid="_UCOtoMXwEduywMSzPTUUwA">core
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| principles</a> that have been shown to motivate effective collaboration. These practices apply to work done in the
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| other layers too.
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