Activity: Consume Reusable Asset
This capability pattern describes how to consume a Reusable Asset, which includes locating, evaluating, applying the asset and providing feedback.
Extends: Consume Reusable Asset
DescriptionWork Breakdown StructureTeam AllocationWork Product Usage
Purpose

The purpose of this workflow is to locate and apply Reusable Assets to solve specific problems.

Relationships
Parent Activities
Description
This capability pattern is focused primarily on:
Properties
Event Driven
Multiple Occurrences
Ongoing
Optional
PlannedYes
Repeatable
Staffing

The asset consumer needs to understand the mechanics of reusing the asset at two levels:

  1. How to locate and evaluate the asset
  2. How to reuse the asset, and what level of interaction with the asset is required to reuse the asset

The asset consumer may be an entire team, or it may be an individual. This is driven by several factors, including the nature of the assets being evaluated, as well as the skills of those conducting the evaluation and reuse.

Key Considerations

The work is best done when the asset consumer has a well-defined problem that needs to be resolved. The asset consumer's understanding of the problem directly affects the activities of searching and evaluating an asset for its relevance.

This work may be done across multiple work sessions, and it may be interrupted at any point in the activities.

It is possible that after applying a reusable asset, a refined asset may be repackaged for others to use. For example, applying a domain reference architecture reusable asset, and configuring it for a specific application context, may result in an application reference architecture that could be further applied in additional contexts. In such cases, the individual filling the role of the asset consumer would identify the produced application reference architecture as a candidate for further reuse. This feeds in to the organizational reuse program, which decides which reusable assets to produce.

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