Role

A role defines the activities and responsibilities of an individual, or a set of individuals in the context of a project / process.

Note:

• A role do not match necessarily a position .

• A person could be given several roles in the context of a given project or even several projects.

• A role correspond to a BPMN participant and can be associated to a BPMN pool in the collaboration process schema.

Associations: 

Allowed parents:  role group, role

Allowed Children: role

Associations: activity, work product
 

Attributes: 

• Description:
  - Description: textual description of the role responsibilities in the first language
   
• Description 2nd lang.:
  - Description: textual description of the role responsibilities in the second language
   
• Small image appearing in activity:
  - Description: path to the small image of the role as appearing in the activity schema (activity page)
   
• Image appearing in role and role group page
  - Description: image of the role appearing in role and role group page
   
• Acting role group or generic role
  - Description: indicate if the role is an "acting role group" or a "generic role".
  In booth cases, children roles have to be added under the role either with standard item hierarchy or with shortcuts.
  If the role is linked to activities, then the activity - role links are propagated to the children roles (can be viewed in the children role pages)
   
  * Acting role group: the role is in fact a group of roles - adding the group means adding all members of the group.
      Example of acting role group: Change Control Board
  
  * Generic role: factorize the behavior of a set of roles. If the generic role is added in an activity, it means that all derived roles participates.
   
• URL to role detailed description:
  - Description: link to detailed description (document or web page)

Generated elements in the role page:

• The role description
• The link to detailed description (document or web page) if any
• The role image
• The work products the role is responsible of
• Activity performed by the role, classified by phase and by role responsibility

Example of generated elements: