Section 2.1. The Parts of a Project

2.1. The Parts of a Project

Figure 2-1 shows the different parts of a single project. This project has source files that become products, and those products have customers who use the products. The project has project members (developers, testers, technical writers, toolsmiths, managers, and product marketing staff), who are also customers for their own products. The development environment for this project is made up of both the tools and the local processes and policies for using those tools.

Figure 2-1. Different parts of a project

If there are many projects within an organization, then each project will have some areas that overlap and some that don't. For instance, two projects may have different policies about how to use the same bug tracking tool. The processes and tools are chosen to work with the source files but need to be able to operate even when the same source files are used by different projects with different policies.