Adopting the Rational Unified Process: Success with the RUP
Stefan Bergström
Lotta Råberg

ISBN-10: 0321202945
ISBN-13: 9780321202949

Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Copyright: 2004
Format: Paper; 272 pp
Published: 12/29/2003

Suggested retail price: $39.99
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Guidance, advice, and a real-world case study teach the reader how to successfully implement the Rational Unified Process (RUP). The reader will find a management-perspective description of the RUP, and details on the effects that the RUP has on projects. In exploring an actual implementation, the authors present a definition of goals and metrics, advice on selecting strategies, and steps toward the development of an implementation plan. A discussion of implementation best practices and proven strategies is included. The book ends with descriptions from actual implementations, and a comparison of the content of the book with what can be found regarding this subject in the RUP itself.

Guidance, advice, and a real-world case study teach the reader how to successfully implement the Rational Unified Process (RUP).

  • Helps organizations tackle the complexity of implemntation and begin seeing immediate return on their significant RUP investment
  • Another in a successful line of books from authors at Rational/IBM, and the latest in the acclaimed Object Technology Series
  • Significant co-marketing opportunities with Rational/IBM



Preface.


About the Authors.


1. How to Adopt RUP in Your Organization.

Before the Implementation.

Create Awareness of RUP.

Assess the Current Situation.

Motivate with a Business Case.

Set Adoption Goals, Identify Risks and Opportunities.

Make a High-Level Adoption Plan and Develop a Communication Plan.

Identify Software Development Projects to Support (Pilot Projects).

During the Implementation.

Make a Detailed Plan for the Implementation Effort.

Support Projects with Mentoring (Among Other Things).

Software Projects Adopt Particular RUP Subsets.

Decide upon Your Process and Document It.

Adapt to the Unexpected (Handle Risks, Opportunities, and Goals).

Evaluate the Implementation Effort.

After the Implementation.

When Is the Implementation Done?

Perform Ongoing Process Improvements.

Conclusion.



2. The First Meeting with RUP.

Packaged Common Sense.

Presented through a Product.

What Is the RUP Product?

The Structure of RUP.

Knowledge Base.

Common Language.

Examples of the New Language.

A Way to Help Project Teams Develop Products More Efficiently.

Conclusion.



3. What Is a RUP Project?

Essential Concepts in RUP.

RUP Is Iterative.

Planning in RUP Is Driven by Risks.

RUP Is Architecture Centric.

RUP Is Driven by Use Cases.

The Spirit of RUP.

RUP Project Team Members Share Their Wisdom.

The Seven Sins of a RUP Project.

Planning to Death.

Detailing Too Much.

Skipping Problem Analysis.

Letting End Dates of Iterations Slip.

Starting Construction before Fulfilling the Exit Criteria of Elaboration.

Testing Only at the End of the Project.

Failing to Move the Product to Maintenance.

Conclusion.



4. Assessing Your Organization.

Who Wants the Assessment and Why?

Kicking Off the Assessment.

How to Assess.

Interviewing People.

Reading Process Documentation.

Comparing with Other Organizations.

What to Assess.

People.

The Organization.

Types of Products and Projects.

Supporting Tools.

The Current Process.

The Current Process Description.

Compiling the Material.

Identifying Problems.

Drawing Conclusions.

Formulating Recommendations.

The Assessment Report.

Presentation of the Findings.

Conclusion.



5. Motivating the RUP Adoption.

Motivating the Decision to Adopt RUP.

Reducing the Productivity Dip.

Increasing the Improvement.

Comparing the Initial Investment and the Dip with the Improvement.

Other Aspects to Cover in a Business Case.

Motivating the People.

Reactions to Change.

Keep Moving between the Four Rooms of Change.

Following Up the Business Case and People's Attitudes.

Examples of Goals and Measurements.

Conclusion.



6. Planning the RUP Adoption.

Creating the Implementation Team.

Setting Adoption Goals.

Identifying Risks and Opportunities.

Making a High-Level RUP Adoption Plan.

What Should the RUP Adoption Plan Cover?

Why Use a Documented Formal Plan?

On What Level Should Planning Occur?

Who Owns the Plan?

Developing a Communication Plan.

Identifying Software Development Projects to Support.

Choosing a Strategy for the RUP Adoption.

Wide and Shallow or Narrow and Deep?

Just One Project at a Time or the Whole Organization at Once?

How Much Time?

Conclusion.



7. Obtaining Support from the Organization.

The Implementation Team and Project.

Supporting Projects When Adopting a RUP Subset.

Harvesting Experiences and Updating the Organization's RUP Adaptation.

Documenting Your Project Implementation Plan.

Stand By for Changes.

Communicating with People in the Organization.

Building Competence Among the Employees.

Training Sessions.

Workshops.

Performing Reviews.

Artifact Reviews.

Milestone Reviews.

Performing Mentoring.

Training the Mentors.

Conclusion.



8. How to Adopt RUP in Your Project.

Assessing Your Project.

Is RUP a Good Idea?

What Are the Characteristics of the Project?

How Do the Project Members Usually Develop Software?

Documenting the Project Assessment.

Selecting from RUP and Planning the Implementation.

Deciding upon and Documenting Your Process, Part 1.

Planning the Process Support.

Documenting the Process Support.

Running Your Project and Getting Support on RUP.

Getting Support Down to the Activity Lists in the Project's Iteration Plans.

Deciding upon and Documenting Your Process, Part 2.

Sharing Your Experiences.

What Will Happen after the Project?

Conclusion.



9. Deciding upon Your Process.

Selecting Parts of RUP.

Disciplines.

Artifacts.

Activities.

Tools.

Best Practices.

Going beyond the RUP Base: RUP Plug-Ins.

How RUP Builder Can Help You Select a Subset.

Other Ways to Get Help for the Selection Process.

Things to Not Exclude.

Adding Process Information.

Adding Guidelines and Examples.

Adding Disciplines, Roles, Activities, and Artifacts.

Adding a Project Management Method.

Changing RUP.

Changing Activities.

Changing Templates.

Changing the Lifecycle.

How Can a Mentor Help You Decide upon Your Process?

Conclusion.



10. Documenting Your Process.

Documentation Tools.

Word Processor.

HTML Editor.

RUP Builder.

MyRUP.

RUP Organizer.

RUP Modeler.

What the RUP Practitioner Will See (Documentation Results)

Development Process, Development Case, and Iteration Plans.

Guidelines and Checklists-Easy and Valuable.

Templates and Examples-People Love Them.

Roadmaps and Process Views-Help People Find Their Way.

Building Your Process Documentation in Stages.

Stage 0: The Development Process Before the Adoption Starts.

Stage 1: The Development Case for the First Project.

Stage 2: The First Draft of the Organizational Development Process.

Stage 3: The Next Project Using the Organizational Development Process.

How Can a Mentor Help You Document Your Process?

Conclusion.



11. A Guide to Successful Mentoring.

Knowledge Transfer.

How Is Knowledge Created?

What Knowledge Is Needed?

What Does a Good Mentor Do?

Walk Around and Be Present.

Encourage People.

Never Criticize.

Practice What You Preach.

Be Prepared to Conduct a Workshop.

Know Your RUP.

Know Your Limits.

Worry, but Be Happy.

Keep Up the Speed.

Let People Make Mistakes.

Typical RUP Adopter Personalities.

The Long-Time Employee.

The Architectural Guru.

The Code Lover or Hacker.

The Test Person.

The Process Lover or Enthusiast.

A Mentor Should Become Redundant.

Conclusion.



Appendix A. Experiences from Actual Implementations.

Volvo Information Technology.

Background.

Timing/Effort.

Long-Term Goals.

Configuration.

Strategy.

Methods for Measuring Success.

Challenges, Traps, and What Could Have Been Done Better.

Biggest Achievements.

Continuation.

Covansys Corporation.

Background.

Timing/Effort.

Long-Term Goals.

Configuration.

Strategy.

Create, Maintain, and Enhance Internal Reusable RUP Assets.

Methods for Measuring Success.

Challenges, Traps, and What Could Have Been Done Better.

Biggest Achievements.

Continuation.



Appendix B. Adding Another Project Management Method to RUP.

PROPS.

PPS.



Glossary.


Recommended Reading.


Index.

Stefan Bergström formerly worked for Ericsson Corporation as a project and process manager. He joined Rational Software in November 1998. He has been a mentor and an instructor since then, helping several of Rational's customers in Sweden to implement RUP. He now manages the training business at Rational in Scandinavia.

Lotta (Ann-Charlotte) Råberg started as a software developer at a consultancy company. Her special interest in visual modeling led her to join Rational Software in May 1995. She has gained solid real-life experiences using RUP through consulting and mentoring at a variety of organizations, helping them succeed with RUP implementations.



Praise for Adopting the Rational Unified Process

“Stefan Bergström and Lotta Råberg take you through what may be your most crucial step in using the Rational Unified Process: a successful adoption process. From assessment of your current capability to the details of RUP implementation, this book takes you by the hand, and guides you. It is all backed by their considerable practical experience helping major industrial companies in Europe implement RUP.”

         —PHILIPPE KRUCHTEN,
             IBM Rational Software

“This book provides a unique perspective on how to successfully introduce lasting improvements into any software development organization. It provides practical guidance into how to conduct a process improvement effort using the Rational Unified Process, written by people who have many years of experience helping customers to be successful with RUP. This book is an essential addition to the bookshelf of anyone adopting RUP, or undertaking any software engineering process improvement effort.”

         —KURT BITTNER,
             Worldwide Communities of Practice Architect, IBM Rational Software
             Co-author of Use Case Modeling, Addison-Wesley, 2003

“Adopting the Rational Unified Process offers real-world advice from those who have been there, implementing RUP in enterprises and organizations. The authors speak from a deep, practical knowledge and honestly share both their successes and mistakes. Following the guidance in this book could save you months or years of costly trial-and-error when implementing RUP.”

         —BARCLAY BROWN,
             Renaissance Research Corp.

“Change is inevitable in the sometimes bleeding edge of software development; so where we can borrow best practices from other proven disciplines such as Business Change Management, we should do so with both hands. The authors practically demonstrate how to leverage these sensible practices when implementing the Rational Unified Process. If you are responsible for implementing RUP in your organization and can only buy one book, make it this one.”

         —TONY GROUT,
             CEO, FMI Solutions

This book teaches you how to implement the Rational Unified Process (RUP) so that you reap immediate returns on your investment in process improvement. With the help of this book's practical advice and real-world case studies, software practitioners will learn how to initiate and maintain the changes needed for an organization to successfully adopt RUP as a new process.

Adopting the Rational Unified Process picks up where Per Kroll and Philippe Krutchen's The Rational Unified Process Made Easy (Addison-Wesley, 2003) leaves off. By taking a guided tour of the activities needed during the process implementation, you'll learn the goals and measurements for adoption, how to select an implementation strategy, and the key points of an implementation plan. You'll also gain insight into management's perspective on RUP and learn how to best make a business case for adopting the process. In addition to sharing best practices and proven strategies, the authors connect their experience with the content in RUP.

Key topic coverage includes:

  • Accessing your organization's current situation
  • Setting implementation goals and identifying risks and opportunities
  • Compiling an implementation plan, communicating the plan, and establishing the pilot projects
  • Supporting projects with mentoring
  • Avoiding the seven sins of a RUP project, from "planning to death" to "failing to move the product to maintenance"
  • Tailoring the process to fit your organization's needs, including selecting from RUP, adding process information, and changing RUP
  • Documenting your process: tools and tips


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    Smith & Williams
    © 2002 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 544 pages | Instock
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  • 0201325640Practical Guide to Testing Object-Oriented Software, A
    McGregor & Sykes
    © 2001 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 416 pages | Instock
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  • 0321136195Practical Software Engineering: Analysis and Design for the .NET Platform
    Manassis
    © 2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 304 pages | Estimated Availability: 09/16/2003
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    Unhelkar
    © 2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 432 pages | Out of Stock
    ISBN-10: 0201758210 | ISBN-13: 9780201758214


    • This book is a comprehensive guide to modern software development practices, as embodied in the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. The Rational Unified Process Made Easy will teach students the key points involved in planning and managing iterative projects, the fundamentals of component design and software architecture, and the proper employment of use cases. Students will learn that the RUP is a flexible, versatile process framework that can be tailored to suit the needs of development projects of all types and sizes.

  • 0321166094Rational Unified Process Made Easy, The: A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP
    Kroll & Kruchten
    © 2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 464 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321166094 | ISBN-13: 9780321166098
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    • The Rational Unified Process, Third Edition, is a concise introduction to IBM's Web-enabled software engineering process. Rational Unified Process®, or RUP®, Lead Architect Philippe Kruchten quickly and clearly describes the concepts, structure, content, and motivation that are central to the RUP. Readers will learn how this approach to software development can be used to produce high-quality software, on schedule and on budget, using the Unified Modeling Language (UML), software automation, and other industry best practices.

  • 0321197704Rational Unified Process, The: An Introduction, 3/E
    Kruchten
    © 2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 336 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321197704 | ISBN-13: 9780321197702
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    • The two previous editions were written as easy-to-read introductions to the UML, and how to apply its notation and semantics to the unique requirements involved with the development of real-time and embedded systems. This third edition is no exception. Although the book's emphasis is on UML, it is also about capturing the requirements, structure, and behavior of real-time systems. The most significant change in this revision will be it's integration throughout the book of UML 2.0, and all indications are that UML 2.0 is even more accepting of the unique aspects of real-time and embedded systems development.

  • 0321160762Real Time UML: Advances in the UML for Real-Time Systems, 3/E
    Douglass
    © 2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 752 pages | Instock
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  • 0201699567Real-Time Design Patterns: Robust Scalable Architecture for Real-Time Systems
    Douglass
    © 2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper Bound w/CD-ROM; 528 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201699567 | ISBN-13: 9780201699562
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    • Refactoring is about improving the design of existing code. It is the process of changing a software system in such a way that it does not alter the external behavior of the code, yet improves its internal structure. With refactoring you can even take a bad design and rework it into a good one. This book offers a thorough discussion of the principles of refactoring, including where to spot opportunities for refactoring, and how to set up the required tests. There is also a catalog of more than 40 proven refactorings with details as to when and why to use the refactoring, step by step instructions for implementing it, and an example illustrating how it works The book is written using Java as its principle language, but the ideas are applicable to any OO language.

  • 0201485672Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
    Fowler, Beck, Brant, Opdyke & Roberts
    © 1999 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 464 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201485672 | ISBN-13: 9780201485677
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    • In this comprehensive introduction to Ada programming, programmers learn how to maximize the potential of this powerful language using an object-oriented methodology. Grady Booch and Doug Bryan combine their expertise to explain how to create large-scale Ada systems using good software engineering principles. Five large-scale Ada programming examples build upon these principles using an object-oriented methodology while illuminating topics such as database systems and generic tree packages. The Third Edition also incorporates more small-sized code examples, exercises based on the programming applications, a new chapter on Ada's impact on the software crisis, and an appendix on Ada 9X.

  • 0805306080Software Engineering with ADA, 3/E
    Booch & Bryan
    © 1994 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 576 pages | Out of Stock
    ISBN-10: 0805306080 | ISBN-13: 9780805306088
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    • This book provides a clear and provocative discussion of the economics, metrics, and management strategies necessary to plan and execute a software project successfully. Royce discusses, with refreshing candor, some of the fads, follies, and excesses of the software industry, clearly differentiating proven techniques and obsolete methods. Paired with this insightful examination are compelling arguments for new management approaches that are sure to stimulate debate. The relative impacts of these new techniques are quantified through simple economic analyses, common sense, and anecdotal evidence. The resulting framework strikes a pragmatic balance between theory and practice that can be readily applied in today's challenging development environment. An extensive case study analysis of a large-scale, million-line project deployed successfully on schedule and under budget using these methods further illustrates their application.

  • 0201309580Software Project Management: A Unified Framework
    Royce
    © 1998 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 448 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201309580 | ISBN-13: 9780201309584
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  • 0201809389Testing Object-Oriented Systems: Models, Patterns, and Tools
    Binder
    © 2000 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 1248 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201809389 | ISBN-13: 9780201809381
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    • This thoroughly revised second edition is based upon the authors' successful

    training courses, and gives the reader a quick, focused tour through a proven

    object-oriented analysis and design process. It introduces and explains the

    need-to-know concepts and key elements of both Unified Modeling Language

    (UML) and the Unified Process (UP). The book allows the reader to get up to

    speed on successful techniques that can be immediately applied. The structure

    of the book aims to give the reader as clear and uncomplicated a guide as

    possible. It takes the reader through an introduction to UML, an introduction

    to the UP, then covers the basics of software requirements and use case

    modeling. The key aspects of the analysis and design stages are covered in stepby-

    step detail, finishing off with implementation.

  • 0321321278UML 2 and the Unified Process: Practical Object-Oriented Analysis and Design, 2/E
    Arlow & Neustadt
    © 2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 624 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321321278 | ISBN-13: 9780321321275
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    • Series: The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series

    The long-awaited third edition of the best-selling UML book on the market; fully-updated and compliant with UML 2.0. This eagerly-anticipated third edition gets students thinking about efficient object-oriented software design using the latest version of the industry-standard for modeling software: UML 2.0. The author has retained the book's convenient, concise format that has made it an essential resource in courses introducing UML. The book describes all the major UML 2.0 diagram types, what they are intended to do, and the basic notation involved in creating and deciphering them. A true treasure for the software engineering community.

  • 0321193687UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, 3/E
    Fowler
    © 2004 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 208 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321193687 | ISBN-13: 9780321193681
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    • This pragmatic guide introduces UML while leading the student through the process of UML-based database modeling and design. The book presents the different types of UML diagrams, explaining how they apply to the database world, and shows how data modeling with the UML can be tied into the Rational Unified Process.

    UML for Database Design is structured around the database design process: business use case modeling, business object modeling, database requirements definition, analysis and preliminary design, and, finally, detailed design and deployment. For each phase of development the book describes the overall objectives and workflow of that phase, the status of the case study, the relevant UML constructs, and the nuts and bolts of database modeling and design with the UML. Drawing on their extensive industry experience, the authors reveal the trials and tribulations of database development teams, lessons learned, and pointers for success.

  • 0201721635UML for Database Design
    Naiburg & Maksimchuk
    © 2002 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 320 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201721635 | ISBN-13: 9780201721638
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    • The latest version of the Unified Modeling Language–UML 2.0–has increased its capabilities as the standard notation for modeling software-intensive systems. Like most standards documents, however, the official UML specification is difficult to read and navigate. In addition, UML 2.0 is far more complex than previous versions, making a thorough reference book more essential than ever.

    In this significantly updated and expanded edition of the definitive reference to the standard, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, and Grady Booch–the UML’s creators–clearly and completely describe UML concepts, including major revisions to sequence diagrams, activity models, state machines, components, internal structure of classes and components, and profiles.

  • 0321245628The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual, 2/E
    Rumbaugh, Jacobson & Booch
    © 2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 752 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321245628 | ISBN-13: 9780321245625
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  • 020130998XThe Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual
    Rumbaugh, Jacobson & Booch
    © 1999 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth Bound w/CD-ROM; 576 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 020130998X | ISBN-13: 9780201309980
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  • 0321267974The Unified Modeling Language User Guide, 2/E
    Booch, Rumbaugh & Jacobson
    © 2005 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 496 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0321267974 | ISBN-13: 9780321267979
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    • This landmark book provides a thorough overview of the Unified Process for software development, with a practical focus on modeling using the Unified Modeling Language. The Unified Process goes beyond mere object-oriented analysis and design to spell out a proven family of techniques that supports the complete software development life cycle. The result is a component-based process that is use-case driven, architecture-centric, iterative, and incremental. The Unified Process takes full advantage of the industry-standard Unified Modeling Language. This book demonstrates how the notation and process complement one another, using UML models to illustrate the new process in action. The authors clearly describe the semantics and notation of the different higher-level constructs used in the models. Constructs such as use cases, actors, subsystems, classes, interfaces, active classes, processes, threads, nodes, and most relations are described in the context of a model. Object technology practitioners and software engineers familiar with the authors' past work will appreciate The Unified Software Development Process as a useful means of learning the current best practices in software development.

  • 0201571692The Unified Software Development Process
    Jacobson, Booch & Rumbaugh
    © 1999 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Cloth; 512 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201571692 | ISBN-13: 9780201571691
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  • 0201432897Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: A Practical Approach
    Rosenberg & Scott
    © 1999 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 192 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201432897 | ISBN-13: 9780201432893
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  • 0201709139Use Case Modeling
    Bittner & Spence
    © 2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 368 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201709139 | ISBN-13: 9780201709131
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    • Fully updated and revised, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML is a comprehensive introduction and tutorial that shows how to use a tool (Rational Rose 2002), a process (the Rational Unified Process), and a language (the UML) to successfully visualize, specify, document, and construct a software system. This timely new edition, written by the UML Evangelist at Rational Software Corporation, breaks the technology down to its essentials and provides clear explanations of each element. The book follows a simplified version of the Rational Unified Process from project inception through system analysis and design. The popular sample case study from the previous editions (a registration system for a fictional university) has been retained and updated, now better illustrating the iterative development process in practice, the UML in action, and the proper application of Rational Rose 2002. Newly updated appendixes demonstrate code generation and reverse engineering using Rational Rose 2002 with the C++, Visual C++, and Visual Basic programming languages. In addition, a handy glossary defines key object technology and software modeling terms.

  • 0201729326Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML, 3/E
    Quatrani
    © 2003 | Addison-Wesley Professional | Paper; 288 pages | Instock
    ISBN-10: 0201729326 | ISBN-13: 9780201729320
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