 | No two software development projects are alike. Each project has very different priorities, requirements, and technologies. Yet, on every project, you want to minimize risk, ensure predictable results, and deliver high-quality software on time. IBM® Rational® Method Composer is a flexible software development process platform that will help you deliver customized yet consistent process guidance to your project team. - Industry-proven best practices - Rational Method Composer includes a customizable process library and tooling to help you manage, author, configure, and deploy effective processes tailored to your project needs. The process library offers the industry’s most robust collection of best practices guidance for software and systems development, management, and governance with more than 100 selectable and customizable process best practices that can be applied to a variety of processes and domains. It includes the IBM Rational Unified Process® process framework. With best practices adopted in thousands of projects worldwide and taught as part of the curricula in hundreds of universities, the RUP methodology has guided some 500,000 developers around the world in a broad range of software and systems delivery and implementation and effective project management development projects. The RUP process framework includes expanded process content (via plug-ins) in areas or solutions such as service-oriented architecture, packaged administration (commercial off-the-shelf), portfolio management, program management, systems engineering, and many others.
- Process made practical - Unlike other commercial methodologies, the Rational Method Composer platform makes process practical with knowledge assets and guidance to help you jump-start project planning, get team members up to speed and working consistently, and put your customized process into action.
- Adapts to your project needs - Only the Rational Method Composer platform provides a configurable process framework that enables you to select and deploy the specific process components you need to provide a consistent, yet customized process for each team and project.
One of the central best practices of RUP is the notion of developing iteratively. Rational Unified Process, included with Rational Method Composer, organizes projects in terms of disciplines and phases, each consisting of one or more iterations. With the iterative approach, the emphasis of each workflow will vary throughout the lifecycle. The iterative approach helps you address risk early and continuously, through demonstrable progress and frequent executable releases. Rational Method Composer| Feature | Description | Benefit |
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| Process configuration | Configuring | Helps you select a base RUP configuration, apply plug-ins and other process components, configure process views, and publish your customized RUP. | Allows project managers and team leads to select and deploy only the process components relevant to their project. | Plug-ins | All process assets are created as plug-ins. Many plug-ins extend RUP but there are also plug-ins that extend the process content beyond application development. Many plug-ins are included out of the box and additional plug-ins are available for download. | Be more resilient to technology changes and combine multiple plug-ins to create a process configuration suited to your project's unique environment. | | Process authoring | Authoring | Easy integration of your organization's process guidance and content with RUP configurations. Form-based editing enables changes to the process by adding, deleting or modifying roles, work products, tasks, etc. | High level of integration of your organization's process knowledge with the RUP guidance. | | Process delivery | myRUP and process views | Views provide easy access to subsets of project process information tailored to particular individuals or roles. myRUP capability allows each individual to tailor their own process view. | Enables each practitioner to quickly access the guidance most relevant to their job, improving process adoption throughout the team. | Tool mentors | Delivers guidance for using Rational tools to perform tasks. | Makes process practical and helps team members better understand how to use Rational tools in the most effective manner. | Extended help | Provides context-sensitive RUP guidance directly from Rational tools. | Promotes better, more effective tool use, boosting return on your tool investment. | | Community & marketplace | developerWorks Rational | developerWorks Rational is a Web portal designed specifically for teams using Rational tools and best practices. | The RUP Plug-In Exchange, targeted whitepapers and articles, Web-based training, and discussion forums provide a worldwide resource and community for RUP practitioners. |
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