A Custom Category is a category introduced by a method author to structure any number of Method Content Elements of any type based on user-defined criteria. Custom categories can be used to categorize content based on the user's criteria as well as to define whole tree-structures of nested categories allowing the user to systematically navigate and browse Method Content and Processes based on these categories. This application of Custom Categories is also called View.

Examples

One could create a Custom Category to logically organize content relevant for the user development organization's departments: A "Testing" category would group together all Roles, Work Products, Tasks, Capability Patterns and Guidance relevant to testing.

Another example would be categories that express licensing levels of the content: These categories would separate freely distributable Method Content from Method Content that represents intellectual property and requires a purchased license for use.