Reuse Team

Definition

Reuse Team: the team that supports reuse within a development, maintenance, or subcontractor organization

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

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

Produce the organizational reuse repositories.
Identify potentially reusable components.
Turn potentially reusable components into actual, certified reusable components.
Maintain the reusable components in the reuse repository.
Support endeavors searching for reusable components.

A reuse team typically inherits the general team responsibilities from the team process component.

A reuse team typically consists of persons playing the following roles:

Reuse Center Manager, who manages the reuse repository and leads the team.
Reuse Librarian, who provides reuse consulting to other teams and technically leads the team.
Reuse Engineer, who engineers work products to be reusable.

A reuse team typically performs the following team-specific tasks in an iterative, incremental, parallel, and time-boxed manner:

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

A reuse team typically produces the following work products:

It is usually a good idea to temporarily staff the reuse engineers with engineers with recent project experience so that:
- They can ensure that reuse support is practical.
- They take a reuse mindset and experience back to the projects when they roll off their reuse duties.
Reuse team staff should spend 100% of their effort on reuse tasks. If they have project development duties, they will typically be pressured to ignore their reuse duties due to project schedule pressures.
A reuse team typically inherits the common team guidelines from the team process component.