Design Work Products

Definitions

Design Work Product: a work product that may be produced during the design activity
Design Set of Work Products: the cohesive collection of design work products

The OPF repository contains the following set of predefined design work products:

Class Responsibility Collaborator Card,
which is a design work product consisting of a large index card that informally documents the responsibilities and collaborators of a class during software design and the programming of class comments.
Contact Center Design Document,
which formally documents the design of a contact (i.e., call) center.
Database Design Document,
which formally documents the design of the databases that will be part of the application.
Data Center Design Document,
which formally documents the design of a data center.
Data Dictionary,
which formally documents the data of an application, database, or enterprise.
Hardware Design Document,
which formally documents the design of the individual hardware components.
Human Interface Design Document,
which formally documents the design of all human interfaces.
Human Interface Prototype,
which is a prototype of an application’s human interfaces.
Javadoc,
which is the class and method level API documentation in HTML format that is automatically generated from comments in Java source code (e.g., by the tool from Sun Microsystems).
Software Design Document,
which formally documents the design of the individual software components.

Different endeavors require different processes, which in turn will require different design work products.
Every endeavor does not require the production of every design work product.
Select only those design work products that are appropriate for the endeavor.
Selected design work products should be:
- Relevant.
- Useful.
- Usable.
- Cost-effective.