Conclusion

During Construction, the third of the four phases of the RUP, you make a lot of progress compared to where you were at end of Elaboration. In a successful Construction phase, you accomplish the following:

• You develop software cost-effectively by taking advantage of the architectural baseline (including architectural mechanisms) created in Elaboration. By aligning the organization in teams along the architecture, you achieve some degree of parallelism in the work of development teams .

• You are able to scale up the project to include more team members as necessary, by having a robust architecture baseline as a starting point and by organizing around the architecture.

• You build and assess several internal releases to ensure that the system is usable and addresses the user needs.

• You move from an executable architecture to the first operational version of your system . You have a fully functional beta version of the systems, including installation, supporting documentation, and training material.