Since its publication in 1987, the Zachman Framework has provided organizations with an effective way of assessing the completeness of software development process models, in terms of an organization’s information needs. This article provides a Zachman-Framework-based analysis of the Rational Unified Process®, a software development process model that describes a us

When an organization is considering a new process or tool introduction, there are a number of issues to consider: Which combination of process and tools is best? What is the most suitable implementation approach? Is the organization fully committed to the success of this project? What is the organization’s capacity for change? This article examines these issues based on our experience with introducing the Rational Unified Process® and Rational Suite® in both small and large organizations.

Using Stephen Covey’s enormously successful The Seven Habits of Effective People as a framework, this article describes how each habit can be applied to project management in an iterative environment. The result is a conceptual project management framework that is based upon how personal action can affect the success or failure of a project. This article is a must read for all project managers coming to grips with iterative software development.

The RUP® business modeling discipline describes the process, roles, activities and artifacts required to understand, improve or re-engineer a business. The discipline has been updated to better support common business modeling approaches and regards business modeling as having a wider area of application than the current focus on software development projects. This whitepaper describes the new discipline and provides some practical insight regarding the intent and usage of the various elements described. For more information regarding the collaboration between Empulsys and IBM Rational Software, click here.

This article takes Kruchten’s and West’s work on RUP® project planning one step further. The practical how-to approach should provide both novice and experienced project managers with a unique approach to juggling planning variables, resulting in a solid and reliable project plan. Furthermore, the techniques described in this article can be applied at different levels to different kinds of projects, with similar results.