New Artifacts

"New Artifacts" are tasks. These tasks comprise one of five core types of tasks: Calendar Events, Repetitive Activities,Quality Problems, Obstacles, and of course New Artifact . "New Artifacts", the category, holds a special place in OpenAgile because almost all work environments require the human capacity for creativity. These tasks result in the creation of something concrete. These tasks channel our capacity for creativity into working towards our goal of adding value for stakeholders. The creation of a document, a process, or a tool, or changing existing documents, processes or tools are all examples of tasks of the category "New Artifacts".

A task in the New Artifacts category must be sized in such a way that if it is worked on in a Cycle,
 * 1) it can be completed,
 * 2) it can be verified to be complete,
 * 3) and is useful in relative isolation.

During OpenAgile's second cycle plan, a remark was made in the records which stated that New Artifacts include tasks whose "work has not been done before and which will not repeat". This statement is interesting in that artifacts - the products of our effort - are unique; for example: even though a digital document, a newspaper, or musical recording can be duplicated multiple times, each duplicate represents a unique instance which maintain their own properties and thus they are separate and unique artifacts.