Rational Process Library

The Rational Process Library offers the industry's most robust collection of best practices guidance for software and systems development, management, and governance. Leverage a diverse set of method content, guidance, templates, and processes with more than 100 selectable and customizable process best practices that can be applied to a variety of processes and domains.

Included in IBM Rational Method Composer, the Rational Process Library enables you to ramp up your organization and projects more quickly with reusable methods and processes to:

• Enhance productivity with industry-proven configurable techniques and practices to fit individual project needs
• Support team collaboration and individual practitioners with context-sensitive process guidance across geographies and functions
• Enable early risk mitigation using iterative processes centered around business priorities and stakeholder needs

The Rational Process Library includes the IBM Practices, a new library made up of practices that can be independently adopted, or composed to create agile and scaled agile processes. Practices are also part of the Measured Capability Improvement Framework (MCIF) and Agile@Scale.

The Rational Process Library also includes the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. The RUP software process framework has guided some 500,000 developers around the world in a broad range of software and systems delivery and implementation and effective project management development projects.

Most of the practices below ship with Rational Method Composer. Those marked as “downloadable” can be downloaded from
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2360&uid=swg24024567

Agile core

• Continuous integration
• Iterative development
• Release planning
• Test-driven development
• Whole team

Change and release management

• Formal change management
• Team change management

Enterprise architecture

• Use-case driven business modeling (downloadable)
• Application modernization strategy (downloadable)
• Service identification (downloadable)
• Service realization (downloadable)
• Service specification (downloadable)

Governance and Compliance

• Managing Performance through Measurements
• Process authoring and tailoring
  • Method authoring method (downloadable)
  • Example Practices Customization (downloadable)
• Product portfolio management (downloadable)
• Risk-value lifecycle
• Setting up a Performance Measurement System

Software architecture

• Component-based software architecture
• Design driven implementation
• Evolutionary architecture
• Evolutionary design

Software requirements

• Business process sketching
• Requirements management
• Shared vision
• Use-case driven development
• User-story driven development (downloadable)

Software quality

• Application vulnerability assessment
• Concurrent testing
• Independent testing
• Performance testing
• Test management

Systems Architecture

• Architectural Analysis - Key System Functions (downloadable)
• Architectural Analysis - Operation Based (downloadable)
• Architectural Design - Operation Based (downloadable)
• Architectural Design - Use-Case Based (downloadable)

Systems Requirements

• Build and Validate Use Cases (downloadable)
• Detailed Use-Case Requirements Analysis (downloadable)
• Elaborate Draft System Requirements Specification (downloadable)
• Joint Realization (downloadable)
• Trade Study - Weighted Objectives Method (downloadable)

The Practices are available in the following languages:

• Chinese (simplified and traditional), Brazilian Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
• Downloadable plug-ins are available in English only.

Most of the packages and plug-ins below ship with Rational Method Composer. Those marked as “downloadable” can be downloaded from
http://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2360&uid=swg24024643

Core RUP packages and plug-ins

• Base concepts
• Requirements Management (no use cases)
  Use-Case Driven Development
  • Requirements Management with Use Cases
  • Architecture with Use Cases
  • Design with Use Cases
• Architecture
  Design
  • Database Design
  • GUI Design
  • Operation Design
  • Real-Time Design
• Implementation
  • Developer Test & Debug
  • Testability
• Production
  • Deployment
  • Documentation
• Configuration & Change Management
  • Basic CCM
  • Detailed CCM
• Assessment
  • Reviews
  • Load Testing
  • Structured Testing
  • Test Management
  • Testability Requirements
• Project Management
  • Basic Project Management
  • Project Planning
  • Project Control
  • Environment Management
  • Process improvement (Development Case)
  • Project Environment
• Informal resources

Extend plug-ins (specialty areas)

• Business modeling
• COTS
• Formal Resources
• Maintenance projects (downloadable)
• Asset-based development (downloadable)
• User experience modeling (downloadable)

Globally distributed development

• Globally distributed development (downloadable)
• Globally distributed development – maintenance (downloadable)

Governance

• Asset-Based Development Governance (downloadable)
• CMMI Compliance Support beta (downloadable)
• Compliance Management (downloadable)
• CMMI for Development v1.2 (downloadable)
• SOA Governance (downloadable)

IT Services Management (ITSM)

• IBM® Tivoli® Unified Process (ITUP)*
• RUP with ITSM/ITUP Connection (downloadable)

Modernization Plug-ins

• Legacy evolution.
• System Z (downloadable)

Service Oriented Architecture Plug-ins

• Service-Oriented Modeling and Architecture
• WebSphere Business Modeler beta (downloadable)

Systems Plug-ins

• DoDAF (downloadable)
• Model Driven Systems Development (downloadable)
• Practical Software & Systems Measurement (downloadable)

Technology and Tools Plug-ins

• Automated Software Quality Test Tools
• Microsoft® .NET
• J2EE
• Rational Application Developer
• Rational Software Architect.

Program and Portfolio Management Plug-ins

• Portfolio Management - for Initiatives (downloadable)
• Program Mobilization (downloadable)

The RUP library is available in the following languages:

• Traditional Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Brazilian
• Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish.

Downloadable plug-ins are available in English only.