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Rational Process Library

The industry's most robust collection of best practices guidance


 
Process Library

Rational Process Library offers the industry's most robust collection of best practices guidance for software and systems development, management, and governance. Leverage a diverse set of method content, guidance, templates, and processes with more than 100 selectable and customizable process best practices that can be applied to a variety of processes and domains.

Included in IBM Rational Method Composer, the Rational Process Library enables you to ramp up your organization and projects more quickly with reusable methods and processes to:

  • Enhance productivity with industry-proven configurable techniques and practices to fit individual project needs
  • Support team collaboration and individual practitioners with context-sensitive process guidance across geographies and functions
  • Enable early risk mitigation using iterative processes centered around business priorities and stakeholder needs

The Rational Process Library includes the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. The RUP software process framework 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 process library consists of a collection of out-of-the-box processes that you can customize to address a diverse set of enterprise and project needs and development styles:


Solution-specific plug-ins

SOA:


Governance:


Compliance:


Enterprise plug-ins

 


Project-specific plug-ins

 


Standard-specific plug-ins

 


Practice-specific plug-ins

 


Technology/tool-specific plug-ins

 


Visit IBM developerWorks for detailed information on the content contained in the Rational Process Library and our partner plug-ins.


Highlights

Complimentary Updated Rational Unified Process Poster

Webcast: Driving Business Sucess with Rational Process Library

White paper: Achieving consistency between business process models and operational guides

IBM Rational Talks to You Teleconference: Manage RUP-based CMMI initiatives


Data sheets

RUP data sheet (142KB)

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Audio/Videos

Webcast: Going Agile - Improve your Agile experience with simple metrics

IBM Rational Talks to You Teleconference- How-to guide on Rational Method Composer Plug-Ins

IBM Rational Talks to You Teleconference- Being Agile in a global development environment


Resources

Redbook: IBM IT Governance Approach: Business Performance through IT Execution

Redbook: Global Development and Delivery in Practice: Experiences of the IBM Rational India Lab

Article: Introducing the RUP plug-in for Model Driven Systems Development

Article: Integrating systems measurement into your software and systems delivery process with the RUP for PSM Plug-in