Stage With Duration

Definition

Stage With Duration

a stage that models a period of time during which one or more work units are to be performed

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Stage With Duration is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Abstract
• Superclass: Stage
• Subclasses:
  • Cycle:
    • Development Cycle
    • Life Cycle
  • Phase
  • Build

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a Stage With Duration are to:

• Provide an overall temporal organization to endeavors.
• Enable producers to formally identify both actual and intended periods of time.

Guidelines

• Stage With Duration is an abstract class of process components; concrete subclasses must be used to create process components for a specific endeavor.