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Just as reusable objects speed application development, reusable methods and processes streamline project startup and build confidence in estimating consistency. Both help you deliver high-quality software and system solutions more rapidly.

The IBM Rational® solution uniquely separates reusable core method content from process definitions. This separation maximizes your flexibility to rapidly tailor processes as organizational and individual project needs dictate -- at project inception or at any time during project execution.

IBM Rational methodologies are a set of repeatable processes based on best practices surrounding portfolio management, project management, software delivery and development and systems delivery. This framework for asset-based planning can help you guide your process engineers, program managers and project leads in quickly assembling and deploying optimized engagement models, project plans and work products. Published methodologies can include skill alignments through the assignment of resource profiles, risk mitigations and all necessary documentation to help create more consistent, higher-quality plans -- and avoid reinventing the wheel.

  • IBM Rational Method Composer: A flexible process management platform with tooling and the industry’s richest process library to help companies implement effective processes for successful software and IT projects.
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  • Rational Process Library: A rich process library offering best practices guidance for software and systems development, management, and governance.

  • Rational Unified Process: Proven best practices for software and systems delivery and implementation and effective project management.
 
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