Methodology

The Rational Unified Process® is a Web-enabled software engineering process that enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices to all team members. RUP® is an easy-to-use online mentor that makes process practical by providing extensive guidelines, templates, and examples for all critical software development activities. RUP's e-business specific content provides explicit guidance in areas such as business modeling, Web architectures and testing for the Web. Guidance for developing on IBM WebSphere, Microsoft Web Solution, BEA WebLogic and Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) platforms are also provided to accelerate your software development projects. RUP is a customizable framework, which can easily be adapted to the way you work. It is tightly integrated with Rational tools, allowing development teams to gain the full benefits of Rational product features, the Unified Modeling Language™ (UML), and other industry best practices

Rational Unified Process makes process practical:

• Unify Your Team
  
  The Rational Unified Process unifies the entire software development team and enhances team communication by providing each team member with one knowledge base, one modeling language and one view of how to develop software.
  
  
• Use Industry-Proven Best Practices
  
  From the company that brought you the UML, the Rational Unified Process optimizes the productivity of every team member by putting experience derived from thousands of projects and many industry leaders at your fingertips.
  
  
• Adopt the Process With Ease
  
  The Rational Unified Process is a web-enabled set of software engineering best practices that can be adapted to the way you work. The process is made practical through a role-based Web interface that is easy-to-use, providing prescriptive guidelines, templates and examples, which are tightly integrated with Rational tools.