Rational Unified Process (RUP): An Introduction and Implementation Perspective

Seminar Description

Rational Unified Process (RUP): An Introduction and Implementation Perspective explores what is necessary to effectively understand and implement the Unified Process from Rational Software. The Rational Unified Process (RUP) has become the de facto process for managing, monitoring and controlling projects implementing software intensive systems. Based on its iterative and incremental approach, risk is reduced while organizations can assimilate new requirements from the ever-changing business environment.

This seminar will introduce the project manager, user, and analyst to the comprehensive set of workflows and artifacts provided by RUP. In addition, the role of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) within RUP will be explained. 

RUP, out of the box, can be overwhelming: 103 artifacts, 9 workflows, 8 project plan templates, 4 phases, 136 activities, 14 work guidelines, 43 Word and HTML templates. Learn from professionals who not only teach RUP but who actually use it and implement it, what the "15 RUP Essentials" are and how to leverage them to your benefit. Also learn how to setup your "company process" and prepare it for your first "project web".

Various Visual Modeling tools will be discussed to reinforce their importance in RUP. Although they aren’t required for the success of RUP or for the delivery of the course, they have a profound effect on the success of the process in the organization.

Who Should Attend

Project managers, project analysts, methodology architects, business users,  and technology architects. 

Prerequisites

This course has no prerequisites. 

Jackson-Reed's Requirements Gathering with Use Cases course would be a natural follow-on or precursor to this course.

Seminar Length

2 days 

Seminar Outline 

1.     Introduction

1. Course Objectives

2. Symptoms of Projects that Fail

3. Cost of Requirements Errors

4. How Should Projects Work

5. What is a Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)?

6. What is a Software Process Model?

7. Waterfall Process Model

8. Spiral Process Model

9. What Does the Dictionary Say?

10. What is a Methodology?

11. Information Engineering

12. Object-Oriented

13. RUP Process Model

14. RUP Principles

15. Knowledge Base Content

16. Weaknesses in RUP

2.     Rational Unified Process (RUP): Defined

1. RUP Process Model

2. RUP: Best Practices

3. Iterative Development

4. Manage Your Requirements

5. Verify Software Quality

6. Manage Change

7. RUP: The Lifecycle Process

8. Disciplines and Models

9. Phases and Milestones

10. Phases and Effort

11. Disciplines: Two Levels

12. Coarse and Fine-grained Project Plans

13. Inception Phase

14. Importance of the Facilitated Workshops

15. After the Facilitated Session

16. Inception Phase: Exit Criteria

17. Inception Phase Milestone: Lifecycle Objective

18. Elaboration Phase

19. The Architectural Prototype

20. Elaboration Phase: Exit Criteria

21. Elaboration Phase Milestone: Lifecycle Architecture

22. Construction Phase

23. Who is Doing What?

24. Construction Phase: Exit Criteria

25. Construction Phase Milestone: Initial Operational Capability

26. Transition Phase

27. Who is Doing What?

28. Transition Phase: Exit Criteria

29. Transition Phase Milestone: Production Release

30. Artifact

31. Activity

32. Using the 80/20 Rule

33. Irrational Disjointed Chaos

3.     Rational Unified Process (RUP): Artifacts

1. Nine Core Disciplines

2. Discipline: Business-Modeling

3. Discipline: Requirements

4. Discipline: Analysis and Design

5. Discipline: Implementation

6. Discipline: Test

7. Discipline: Deployment

8. Discipline: Configuration and Change Management

9. Discipline: Project Management

10. Discipline: Environment

11. Overall Strategy

12. Key Issues and Risks

13. Caveats

14. 15 “Essential” Artifacts

15. Finding Architecturally Significant Requirements

16. Finding Architecturally Significant Requirements

4.     Customizing RUP and Support for Legacy and Packaged Products

1. RUP = Lots of Stuff!!!

2. RUP: Tailorable

3. Two Ways to Modify RUP

4. Legacy and RUP

5. Greenfield Development

6. Acquisitions: Lifecycle for First Increment

7. Progression Acquisition Program Lifecycle

8. Contractual Lifecycle

9. Plan Solicitation

10. Final Closure and Acceptance

11. RUP and RFPs/RFTs

5.     RUP Summary

1. Iterative: Not a Free Ride 5-2

2. Traps of the Iterative Lifecycle.. 5-4

3. Some Dos 5-6

4. And Some Don’ts.... 5-7

5. Cultural Changes to Make This a Success 5-12

6. RUP: Next Steps 5-14