June 2008Mike Woodard Rational Unified Process Overview Mike Woodard

June 2008 Mike Woodard Introduction From project design to implementation, RUP helps bring technology and software together to facilitate effective collaboration on software development. The focus is on increasing productivity, reducing time to market, responding quickly to change, and increasing customer value.

June 2008 Mike Woodard Background The Unified Process was developed in the early 80s by the Rational Company. IBM acquired Rational in 1987 and developed RUP. In 2007 IBM released some of RUP as open source under Eclipse creating OpenUP.

June 2008 Mike Woodard Key Benefits Manage value by automating and enforcing best practices that keep your software projects aligned with changing business priorities. Develop flexibly with an open, collaborative software development platform that offers maximum freedom in selecting how and where you source projects. Control risk and change with a solution that captures, communicates, and integrates policies, practices, and metrics across project teams and diverse contributors throughout the software life cycle.

June 2008 Mike Woodard Key Features Includes a set of recommended best practices for software development. Focuses on delivering executable code to the customer incrementally and iteratively. Prioritizes work by risk, completing the highest risks first. Uses just enough process to meet the phase quality gates established by the team. Uses collaboration between the development team and the users to ensure what is being built is what is needed.

June 2008 Mike Woodard Approach A RUP project has four phase each of which focuses on specific risks: Inception: business risks Elaboration: technical risk Construction: integration risk Transition: delivery risk

June 2008 Mike Woodard References Ambler, S. (2008) Making the Unified Process work in Practice. Retrieved 30 May 2008 from Eclipse OpenUp IBM Rational Development Works. Retrieved 2 June 2008 from ibm.com/developerworks/rational/ 128.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/ Kesterton, A. (2007). Rational Unified Process. Retrieved 30 May 2008 from