1. Embedded Software (ESW) Engineering Practices Introduction
IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering
Embedded Software (ESW) Engineering Practices Introduction

2. Process Management and Enactment The engine of lifecycle management
Improve quality and predictability by leveraging proven practices and patterns of success
Quickly and easily compose right-sized project/team processes and deploy process, methods and tools to project
Surface process guidance in-context directly within practitioner tools to speed on-boarding, process adoption and return on investment in Rational tools
Simplify compliance with pre-defined methods and mappings to industry standards and regulations
Increase productivity and turn “know-how” into competitive advantage 2

3. Practices - modular solution components Guidance for software & systems development, management, governance, and more
A practice is an approach to solving one or several commonly occurring problems
Practices are intended as "chunks" of process for adoption, enablement, and configuration
Address one aspect of the development process that can span disciplines/domains/lifecycle.
Practices apply the concepts of “components” or “services” to process management
Include associated tool guidance and tool configuration assets
Include recommended metrics to assess practice adoption (process metrics) and project status (product/project metrics)
Generally re-usable across a variety of lifecycle models
Practices enable a compositional approach to building methods with the following benefits:
Adaptability and scalability
Mapped to operational objectives
Incremental adoption
Easy to configure and use
Enable community development
Practice - Table of Contents
Motivation – why do it, benefits
How to adopt this practice
Enablement, and reference material
Key Concepts
Work Products – what you produce
Tasks – what you do
Guidance – how you do it
Tools guidance for executing the tasks
Recommended Metrics/Measurements
Related practices
Results:
Avoids self-inflicting too much process
Faster and more predictable results
Measured Improvement

4. Accessing Practice Content in the Image
Navigate to the index.htm file in the ESW folder on the Jazz Server as shown below. Double-click the index.htm file to open it in a web browser.

5. ESW Practice Content – Areas to Explore
Welcome Page: overview of the content
Getting Started: helpful information to initiate a project
Delivery Processes: the orchestration of the tasks within the practices to deliver systems and software engineering
Practices: the core best practices and capability patterns composed of tasks
Roles Sets: the roles performing the tasks
Tasks: atomic steps of work that make up the practices
Work Products: input and output documents and artifacts of the tasks
Tools: tool mentors to demonstrate tool usage

6. Review the Welcome Page

7. Review the Getting Started Pages
Review these pages using the browser on the left or the links on the right

8. Explore the Delivery Process
Explore the activities through the browser on the left or by double clicking the activities on the right

9. SSE Solution – RTC Process Description
All projects created using the ESW Process Template include a link to the ESW published website

10. Explore Practices
Explore the practices through the browser on the left or the links on the right

11. Explore Practices
Examining the practice, you can click on work products, roles, tasks, and additional guidance

12. SSE Solution – RTC Work Item Templates
Several Work Item Templates have been created in RTC based on the practices and tasks in RMC

13. SSE Solution – RTC Work Item Templates
All Work Items created from one of these Work Item Templates include a link to the Practice/Task description

14. Roles sets show task and work product responsibilities for each role
Explore Roles Sets
Roles sets show task and work product responsibilities for each role

15. Explore Tasks
Each task description includes role responsibilities, input work products, output work products, step by step guidance, and additional information such as tool mentors to illustrate how to accomplish the task with a specific tool

16. Explore Work Products
Each work product description includes role responsibilities, task association, and additional information such as templates and checklists

17. Explore Tools
Tools include tool mentors that provide step by step instructions for using tools to accomplish tasks or task steps

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