The Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process

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Extend RUP to Drive Improvements Across the Entire IT Lifecycle
The Rational Unified Process is a powerful tool for improving software development — but it doesn’t go nearly far enough. Today’s development organizations need to extend RUP to cover the entire IT lifecycle, including the cross-project and enterprise issues it largely ignores. The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) does precisely that, enabling you to deliver systems that meet all the needs of today’s businesses. Now, EUP’s creator and architects present the definitive introduction to EUP, and demonstrate how to use it in your environment.

The Enterprise Unified Process systematically identifies the business and technical problems that RUP fails to address, and shows how EUP fills those gaps. Using actual examples and case studies, the authors introduce processes and disciplines for producing new software, implementing strategic reuse, “sunsetting” obsolete code and systems, managing software portfolios, and much more. Their independent, “tool agnostic” coverage will be indispensable no matter which RUP products or platforms you’ve invested in. Coverage includes

Practical, step-by-step guidance for adopting EUP in midsized-to-large organizations

Proven processes for optimizing ongoing IT operations and support

Enterprise business modeling and architecture with EUP

EUP disciplines for enterprise administration, people management, and software process improvement

Using the new EUP plug-in for IBM’s RUP platform

Workflow diagrams fully consistent with RUP for easy understanding

Detailed appendices covering EUP roles, artifacts, and terminology

EUP is the missing link that can help IT professionals achieve the full benefits of RUP in the enterprise. This book will help you discover it, master it, implement it, and succeed with it.
Preface

It was a dark and stormy night, and suddenly a shot rang out. The information technology (IT) department had failed to deliver once again, and that was the last straw for the business stakeholders – it was time to outsource the entire department.

Sound familiar? This is happening to IT departments all over the world because they don’t provide sufficient value to their business stakeholders. Stakeholders have grown tired of projects delivered late and over budget, if delivered at all. They’re tired of paying for the same functionality over and over again, they’re tired of insufficient system support, they’re tired of systems which don’t work together, and they’re tired of the ever increasing bill for IT-related services. Many IT departments are at a crossroads and they either need to change the way that they work or they need to be prepared to be replaced by other organizations that are more effective at delivering working software.

Since 1999 Ronin International, Inc. has been helping organizations adopt the Unified Process to enable them to become better at software development. At first, most clients needed help to adopt the Rational Unified Process (RUP) but later they realized that they needed help extending the RUP to address issues which go beyond software development. We started seeing significant commonality between customers, motivating us to develop the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) which extends the RUP to become a full IT lifecycle. The RUP is a great starting point for many IT departments, the EUP takes it to the next level.

One of the first things that you’ll notice about this book is that we present a slightly different approach to the Unified Process. We don’t work for IBM Rational and as a result we’re in a position to be objective and describe what actually works in practice. Don’t worry, within the scope of the RUP we don’t deviate all that much because frankly IBM Rational has done a pretty good job within their chosen scope. The value in this book is the extensions to the RUP – two new phases and eight new disciplines – making the RUP truly ready for real-world IT departments. Just take a quick look at the table of contents to see what we mean.

The bottom line is that this book looks at process from the point of view of an entire IT department, not just a single project or system, discussing the difficult issues that IT professionals face every day.

The book features a wide range of pictures which overview what you need to do. The text describes the issues you’ll face and strategies for overcoming them, but doesn’t waste your time with minute details. In every organization where we’ve worked we discovered that they had good people who knew what they were doing but what was missing was a unifying vision for getting them to work together effectively. This book won’t turn you into an expert portfolio manager, or enterprise architect, or … but it will explain the fundamental issues and strategies which these roles address within your IT organization.

FEATURES OF THIS BOOK

This book has several features which will make it a valuable resource for you:

It is practical. This book provides practical advice in an easy-to-read manner.

It covers the critical issues. This book focuses on the fundamental issues which you will face on a daily basis and describes options for addressing the issues. It does not, however, waste your time covering extraneous details which are typically unique to your organization anyway.

It is consistent with the RUP. The chapters describing the new phases and disciplines include many workflow diagrams which follow the same approach within the RUP product – existing RUP practitioners will instantly recognize and understand them.

In includes case studies. We share our experiences, most good although some bad, gained introducing the RUP and EUP into organizations since 1999.

It includes Reader Return on Investment (ROI) boxes. Each chapter begins with a summary of the critical points made within the chapter, providing a quick overview of the chapter.

It contains suggested resources. Each chapter ends with suggestions for where to look further for more information.

WHO SHOULD READ THIS BOOK

This book is written for IT professionals who are experienced at the RUP who wish to improve and extend their approach to IT. You’re competent at your job but you realize that your organization, and perhaps you as well, need to change your approach to IT if you’re going to succeed in the coming years. This book will provide the insights which you need to identify where you’re going wrong and provide strategies for addressing those challenges.

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