Retirement Team

Definition

Retirement Team

the team that performs the retirement tasks

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Retirement Team is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Engineering Team
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical team-specific responsibilities of a Retirement Team are to:

• Plan the retirement activity.
• Terminate operations in an orderly manner.
• Archive useful documentation.
• Archive or dispose of the data, software, and hardware components.

The retirement team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

Roles

The retirement team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

• Computer Operator, who ceases operations.
• Hardware Engineer, who disconnects and removes the hardware components.
• Technical Writer, who archives the documentation.

Tasks

The retirement team typically the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Retirement:
  • Retirement Planning
  • Retirement Notification
  • Operations Termination
  • Component Archival
  • Component Disposal
  • Documentation Archival
  • Documentation Disposal

The retirement team typically inherits the common team tasks from the team process component.

Work Products

The retirement team typically produces the following work products:

• Retirement Plan
• Archived developer and user documentation
• Archived Data Components
• Archived Hardware Components
• Archived Software Components

Guidelines

• The retirement team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.