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| <h3> |
| Work Product |
| </h3> |
| <p> |
| A Work Product is a general abstraction that represents something resulting from the process.&nbsp; Work Products |
| include: |
| </p> |
| <ul> |
| <li> |
| <a class="elementlink" href="./../../../base_concepts/guidances/concepts/artifact,_fdRfkBUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg.html" |
| guid="_fdRfkBUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg">Artifact</a> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <a class="elementlink" href="./../../../base_concepts/guidances/concepts/deliverable,_lBgkMBUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg.html" |
| guid="_lBgkMBUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg">Deliverable</a> |
| </li> |
| <li> |
| <a class="elementlink" href="./../../../base_concepts/guidances/concepts/outcome,_pROF4BUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg.html" |
| guid="_pROF4BUJEdqrUt4zetC1gg">Outcome</a> |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
| <p> |
| Tasks have input and output Work Products. Roles use Work Products to perform Tasks, and produce other Work Products in |
| the course of performing Tasks. Work Products are the responsibility of a single Role, making responsibility easy to |
| identify and understand, and promoting the idea that every piece of information produced in the process requires the |
| appropriate set of skills. Even though one Role may "own" the Work Product, other Roles will use the Work Product, |
| perhaps even updating it if the Role has been given permission to do so. |
| </p> |
| <p align="center"> |
| <map id="FPMap1" name="FPMap1"> |
| </map><img height="569" |
| alt="Popular Work Products in Software Development, and the approximate dependency relationships between them." |
| src="resources/overview.gif" width="536" usemap="#FPMap1" border="0" /> |
| </p> |
| <p class="picturetext" align="center"> |
| Popular Work Products in Software Development, and the approximate dependency relationships between them. |
| </p> |
| <p> |
| Note that "<b>Work Product</b> " is the term used to describe what other processes denote using terms such as |
| <b>Artifact</b>, <b>work unit</b>, and so on. In UMA, <b>Deliverables</b> are only considered to be the subset of all |
| Work Products that will end up being delivered into the hands of the customers and users, usually as part of a formal |
| or contractually agreed hand-over. |
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