1 The Rational Unified Process

Philippe Kruchten, Rational Software Corporation

Convention Centre
Burrard Rooms I & II

The Rational Unified Process is a complete software engineering process. It provides a disciplined approach to assigning tasks and responsibilities within a development organization. Its goal is to ensure the production of high-quality software, meeting the needs of its end-users, within a predictable schedule and budget. It is tailorable to a wide range of projects and organizations. The Rational Unified Process is a superset of the Rational Objectory Process which integrates best practices from many disciplines and sources. The original Objectory process, centered around the concept of use case and an object-oriented design method, was first integrated with the Rational Process to make it an iterative process, focused on software architecture and using the UML as the notation for the several models that are built during the development. Other practices have now been integrated to make this process span the full development life-cycle: requirements management, data engineering, testing, configuration and change management, UI design and component-based development.

The objectives of this tutorial are to introduce the Rational Unified Process, explain its architecture and representation, and show some of its benefits. Attendees will learn how to structure, organize and control their own iterative process, using concepts such as architecture, object technology, and use cases.

Attendee Background: Software development managers, software developers, process engineers;no special background or pre-requisite is necessary.

Philippe Kruchten is Director of Process Development at Rational Software Corporation. He has some 25 years of experience in development of large-scale software-intensive systems in the areas of telecommunication, defense, aerospace, transportation, and software development tools. Dr. Kruchten has presented tutorials during the last 10 years on a wide range of topics, from Ada, to software architecture, and now software development process.