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The Rational Unified Process – An Enabler for Higher Process Maturity
Annie Kuntzmann–Combelles, Q-Labs France Philippe Kruchten, Rational Software Canada A Rational Software and Q-Labs White paper

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ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................................. 1 ARE YOU EFFICIENTENOUGH?........................................................................................................... 1 ROADMAPS FOR IMPROVEMENT........................................................................................................ 2 WHAT DO ORGANIZATIONS NEED TO START AN SPI PROGRAM? .................................................................. 2 THE CMM MODEL [6]................................................................................................................................. 2 THE IDEAL METHOD [4] ............................................................................................................................. 2 THE PROCESS............................................................................................................................................... 3 THE RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS ............................................................................................................... 3 ISO DOCUMENTS......................................................................................................................................... 3 USING THE RUP FOR SPI........................................................................................................................ 3 THE RUP MATCHES CMM REQUIREMENTS AT THE PROJECT LEVEL ............................................................ 4 Lifecycle issues ....................................................................................................................................... 5 Get the project vision and develop a businessmodel.......................................................................... 6 Organize and plan the project ............................................................................................................. 6 Deploy the Unified Change Management policy................................................................................ 8 Process selection andtailoring............................................................................................................... 8 Risk management .................................................................................................................................... 9 Measurement......................................................................................................................................... 10 THE RUP MATCHESCMM REQUIREMENTS AT THE ORGANIZATION LEVEL ............................................... 11 Process improvement ............................................................................................................................ 11 The steps to implement process and tools in an organization ........................................................... 11 A process-implementation projectcan be divided into phases ......................................................... 12 Resources and skills.............................................................................................................................. 13 PRAGMATICS: HOW TO GET STARTED WITH THE RUP ............................................................ 14 CONCLUSION........................................................................................................................................... 17 REFERENCES ........................................................................................................................................... 19

The Rational Unified Process – An Enabler for Higher Process Maturity

Abstract
This paper highlights the key concepts that a mature...