B345 Internet Science and Technology 
Week 7 lecture 1

Today's Lecture Learning Objective
- Understand the basis of the Rational Unified Process.
- Learn how Rational Unified Process fits as an agile methodology.

The Importance of RUP
- Well established in the OO development circles. 
- Visual modeling.
- UML.
- An associated set of software and templates.

Structure of the Process
- Workers
- Activities
- Artifacts
- Workflows

Workflows
<< See "example of workflow" figure in paper >>

Workflows
- Business modeling
- Requirements
- Analysis and Design
- Implementation
- Test
- Deployment

- Project Management
- Configuration and Change Management
- Environment 

Phases
- Inception
- Elaboration
- Construction
- Transition
- Iterations

RUP
<< See "Iteration Model graph" figure in paper >>

An Agile RUP
- Light-weight or heavy-weight?
- Properties:
    - Configurable.
    - Promotes iterations.
    - Time structured on phases and not process workflows.
    - Change Management workflow.
    - Component-based architectures.