Discipline

Description: 

Regroup the activities, the work products, the roles related to a given process area (example: project management, configuration management, requirement management, integration, verification, validation, ...).

Notes:

• The discipline name is propagated to children items.

• Disciplines may be common to several domains.  In the item hierarchy, domains shall be located above discipline. So you have to create discipline items with the same name under each domain.

Associations: 

Allowed parents :  domain, no process class

Allowed Children: process, work product group, template access, process overview, guide group, glossary, no process class

Associations: /

Note: discipline is propagated to all children items along item hierarchy.

Attributes: 

• Name
  - Description: name of the discipline if different from item name
  - Possible values: free
   

Note:

Typical hierarchy of items below Discipline: