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- Rational Unified Process Software from IBM that provides guidelines, templates and examples for each team member in the system development process. Supporting the Unified Modeling Language UML, RUP...
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- Using ITIL to Address the Disconnect Between Development and IT Service Management Teams
- ITIL, the leading service management best-practices framework, offers a useful tool for understanding how to improve collaboration between the two. Tivoli Unified Process and RUP deliver a practical way to make ITIL actionable through detailed workflows correlated with roles, work products, tools guidance and scenarios. With the help of frameworks...
- White papers 2008-06-01
- IBM Rational Architecture Management Software Model Structure Guidelines: Part 2. Classic Rational Unified Process
- This paper is for those who are interested in applying the modeling guidance found in the traditional IBM Rational Unified Process RUP to their use of IBM Rational Software Modeler, IBM Rational Systems Developer, or IBM Rational Software Architect. This paper explains how these products support the model types defined...
- White papers 2008-01-22
- Effectively implement improved process solutions in your company based on industry best practices
- Implementing the IBM Rational Unified Process and Solutions: A Guide to Improving Your Software Development Capability and Maturity is a hands-on roadmap for anyone looking to introduce an improved process solution, technology and tools to an organization based on industry best practices. In this sample chapter, evaluate the potential value...
- Book chapters 2007-07-12
- The IBM Rational Unified Process Solution at the Tivoli Rome Laboratory: A RUP Pilot Implementation
- The chances of successfully implementing a change within any organization increase significantly with the amount of motivation for the change and the passion the organization brings to the effort. The IBM Tivoli Rome Laboratory recently embarked on such a change as it adopted the IBM Rational Unified Process, or IBM...
- White papers 2007-06-01
- TOGAF or Not TOGAF: Extending Enterprise Architecture Beyond RUP
- This paper contrasts the disciplines of enterprise architecture, solution architecture, and business architecture; compares these disciplines to the IBM Rational Unified Process RUP and suggests ways to combine them; and advocates applying The Open Group Architecture Framework TOGAF in combination with RUP to advance the implementation of enterprise architecture within...
- White papers 2007-01-15
- The Value of RUP Certification
- The RUP certification process is a formalized, reliable way of demonstrating that an individual has acquired the skills and experience necessary to carry the title of IBM Certified Solution Designer - Rational Unified Process v7.0. IBM's stringent certification process means that turning a self-declared RUP practitioner into a certified RUP...
- White papers 2007-01-15
- Managing Compliance With RUP: A Starter Plug-In
- This paper presents a general overview of compliance as it pertains to software development and delivery requirements, and it specifically describes the IBM Rational Compliance Management strategy for helping businesses meet those needs. This strategy is delivered to organizations via the Rational Unified Process, or RUP, and a plug-in (RUP...
- White papers 2006-11-15
- UML, RUP, and the Zachman Framework: Better Together
- As leaders in their respective disciplines, UML, RUP, and the Zachman Framework can be used together in any organization to deliver better overall architectural value. Both RUP and Zachman are model-driven and require a notation to function. Since RUP dictates UML as a notation, it probably makes sense to standardize...
- White papers 2006-11-15
- Improve the way you develop software: Apply principles from the Unified Process framework
- Improve the way you develop software by adopting software engineering best practices that operate within the proven, scalable framework of the Unified Process. The practices can be adopted individually, but work best synergistically; taken together they constitute the backbone of a process that is iterative, agile, and that scales to...
- Book chapters 2006-10-18
- Using Rational Unified Process in an SME - A Case Study
- The Rational Unified Process RUP is a comprehensive software development process framework emphasizing use-cases, architecture focus and an iterative approach. RUP is widely known and many organizations have tried to adopt it. Being a framework, RUP has to, in some way, be tailored to the specific context of use, no...
- White papers 2005-08-31
- Managing Subcontractors With Rational Unified Process
- In many commercial projects, it is needed to combine subcontracting with normal software development to provide a complete management process, acceptable to all stakeholders involved in the project. This white paper explores the subcontracting strategies available to organizations adopting the IBM, Rational Unified Process, as part of their software development...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- Enhancing Rational Unified Process for Capability Maturity Model Integration Compliance: A Methodological Approach
- Rational Unified Process RUP is weak in several areas. In a study performed by the Software Engineering Institute, RUP was assessed against CMMI Continuous Representation. Although RUP performed well in most of the CMMI process areas, it was assessed as weak in the areas of Supplier Agreement Management and Technical...
- White papers 2004-10-01
- Business Process Modeling and Simulation With UML Part I: Defining a UML Transaction Model That Maps to RUP Business Models
- Business modeling is an important activity in software development: For software to be useful, it must directly support the business. Once a sound business model is developed, it is possible to explore different business improvement options such as eliminating redundant tasks, and automating repetitive and mundane tasks or those prone...
- White papers 2004-02-09
- User Experience Storyboards: Building Better UIs With RUP, UML, and Use Cases
- The Unified Modeling Language, or UML, is the de facto standard for software modeling. It is used for creating models in RUP, including the use-case model, the analysis and design models, and the UX model. Using multiple models to represent a system is important because it allows a team to...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Using the IBM Rational Unified Process for Small Projects: Expanding Upon eXtreme Programming
- The Rational Unified Process or RUP is a complete software development process framework that comes with several out-of-the-box instances. This white paper describes how to apply RUP in a lightweight manner to small projects. We describe how to effectively apply eXtreme Programming XP techniques within the broader context of a...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- A Comparison of the IBM Rational Unified Process and eXtreme Programming
- This white paper compares the Rational Unified Process RUP, a process framework, refined over the years by IBM Rational. The RUP is widely used on a variety of software projects, from small to large, with Extreme Programming XP, a software development approach gaining increasing recognition as an effective method for...
- White papers 2003-08-27
- Planning a Project with the Rational Unified Process
- This white paper, written for project managers and software development managers who are about to embark on the process of planning for a software development project, describes a practical approach to project planning based on the RUP project management discipline.
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering RUP SE1.1
- This paper introduces a variant of the Rational Unified Process RUP that addresses the problem of system specification, analysis, design, and development. As a derivative of RUP, RUP SE consists of new artifacts as well as modifications of RUP the creation of those artifacts. This paper provides an overview of...
- White papers 2002-05-01
- A Comparison off RUP and XP
- This paper compares the Rational Unified Process RUP, a process framework, refined over the years by Rational Software, that's being widely used on a variety of software projects, from small to large, with Extreme Programming XP, a software development approach gaining increasing recognition as an effective method for building smaller...
- White papers 2001-05-01
- Tailoring and Automating Rational Unified Process (RUP)
- IBM Rational Unified Process?, or RUP?, is a well regarded software development methodology. The full benefits of RUP can be realized only if this off-the-shelf methodology can be tailored to suite each software development project in your organization. This webinar will first introduce the SPEM Software Process Engineering Metamodel specification...
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