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UML profile notation
Process hierarchy
Workflow description
Task description form
Links to external resources

Conventions used in this site

UML profile notation

The notation used for a Models is a package stereotyped as «ModelName». The model icon in the upper right corner of the package symbol is used:

Notation used to describe UMP profile models
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Process hierarchy notation

Process—Activity—Task hierarchy
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To describe UMP life cycle model the ISO/IEC 12207 standard terms are used. The Process—Activity—Task hierarchy is shown as the nested action states of the UML Activity Diagram.

Workflow description notation

Tasks workflow is described using:

UML Activity Diagrams
Structured English

Task description form

Task goals
Procedure		Steps to be done to implement task
Inputs	Programming artifacts	Only inputs, that will be directly use and / or transformed in outputs are listed here. The documents, which are related to the process as a whole (such as SDP) should not be listed here.
	Model
	Documents
	Checklists
Guides
Outputs	Programming artifacts
	Model
	Documents
	Checklists
Completion criteria
Quality metrics
Milestones
Process improvement opportunity events		The events, which affect or could affect the process should be identified, the impact should be analyzed from the process improvement point of view. The process changes shall be documented, distributed and agreed among the team members.

Links to external resources

Links to external resources IS NOT supported.

Reasons:

It is redundant to support links to external internet resources that we cannot to control
Thus there is no need to maintain them in working state

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