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Purpose To top of page

The environment discipline focuses on the activities necessary to configure the process for a project. It describes the activities required to develop the guidelines in support of a project. The purpose of the environment activities is to provide the software development organization with the software development environment—both processes and tools—that will support the development team.

Read the Concepts: Process Configuration, to understand the basics about how to configure the Rational Unified Process™ (RUP).

The Concepts: Implementing a Process in an Organization, gives a step-by-step procedure to how to implement a process in an organization. However, this procedure is not described in terms of roles, activities, and artifacts.

The Concepts: Implementing a Process in a Project, explains how to implement a process, together with supporting tools, in a software-development project.

The Process Engineer Toolkit provides tool support for configuring a process.  This includes tools and examples for creating organization and/or project web sites based on the RUP®.

Relation to Other Disciplines To top of page

The Environment discipline provides the supporting environment for a project. In doing so, it supports all other disciplines.

 

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