Tool Acquisition

Definition

Tool acquisition is the environments engineering task of acquiring the tools to be deployed on the environments.

Objectives

The typical objectives of the tool acquisition task are to:

• Acquire the software tools (e.g., project management, configuration management, upperCASE tools, lowerCASE tools, test tools, etc.).
• Acquire any hardware tools.

Preconditions

The tool acquisition task can typically begin when the following preconditions hold:

• The environments team is adequately staffed and trained in tool acquisition.
• The vendor and tool selection task has started.

Completion Criteria

The tool acquisition task is typically complete when the following postconditions hold:

• All tools have been acquired.

Steps

The tool acquisition task typically involves the following teams performing the following steps in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

• Environments Team:
  • TBD

Techniques

The tool acquisition task can typically be performed using the following techniques:

• TBD

Work Products

The tool acquisition task typically results in the production all or part of the following work products:

• Environments Set:
  • Product Selection Report

Guidelines

• TBD