Development Organization

Definition

Development Organization

any organization that develops one or more work products (primarily an application, a set of components, and associated documentation and test software) for one or more customer organization(s)

Classification

As illustrated in the preceding figure, Development Organization is part of the following inheritance hierarchy:

• Type: Concrete
• Superclass: Organization
• Subclasses:
  • None

Responsibilities

The typical responsibilities of a Development Organization are to:

• Sign legal documents (e.g., contract, statement of work).
• Elicit needs and project objectives from the customer and user organizations.
• Develop the work products.
• Deliver the work products to the customer organization.
• Deploy applications to user organizations.

Guidelines

• The development organization and other organizations may belong either to the same or to different businesses.
• Like the same person playing multiple roles or being a member of multiple teams, the same business division may be modeled as a development organization as well as a:
  • Customer organization if it funds the development of the work products it produces.
  • User organization if it builds work products for itself.
  • Operations organization if it operates the applications it produces.
  • Maintenance organization if it maintains the work products it produces.
• The development organization typically uses the OPEN Process Framework (OPF) to construct its development process.
• The development organization typically inherits the common guidelines from the organization method component.