Work Product
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Purpose
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Tailoring (Optional, Recommended)
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Bill of Materials
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Used to ensure that all parts of the product are available and accounted for.
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Optional.
Not needed if a build is essentially the product. Often the Bill of Materials is the responsibility
of a separate part of the organization, and is not part of the process followed by the software
team.
Recommended when the product contains a number of non-software elements, or when software is
supplied from multiple sources.
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Deployment Plan
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Ensures that the product can be effectively transitioned to the user community.
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Recommended for most projects.
However, it may be folded into a section of the Software Development Plan. A separate deployment
plan may be needed when deployment tasks are complex or time-consuming.
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Product (Deployment Unit)
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The purpose of the process is to produce a product.
(A deployment unit is associated with a single node in the overall network of computer systems or
peripherals.)
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All projects produce a product.
Many projects have a single deployment unit which is the product.
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User Support Material
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Needed to assist the user in learning, using, operating and maintaining the product.
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Recommended
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Installation Work Products
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Needed to enable someone to install the product.
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Recommended
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Release Notes
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Used to identify changes and known bugs in a version of a build or deployment unit that has been made
available for use.
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Recommended
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Training Materials
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Training materials assist the users of the product.
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Recommended if users need to be trained.
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