| RMC addresses cross-project concerns at the program, portfolio, and enterprise level. |
RMC also addresses cross-project concerns at the program, portfolio, and enterprise level. We expect to expand upon this content rapidly. At the time of publishing, the content includes the following: Program management. This provides guidance on mobilizing and planning large or very large program efforts, such as implementation of a program office, planning, and the establishment of program governance, controls, and supporting infrastructure. Portfolio management. This provides guidance on planning and executing a portfolio assessment, managing business cases, conducting periodic and strategic reviews of ongoing initiatives, and making decisions about whether to continue or discontinue the project. Asset-based development. This provides guidance on asset production, asset consumption, and asset portfolio management. Business engineering. This provides guidance on modeling business goals, existing and future business processes, and organizational structure, as well as simulation of business process. It also describes how to link business processes to existing or future software assets. Process engineering. This provides guidance on effective leveraging of IBM RMC for your process initiative, as well as on carrying out process improvement efforts. Systems engineering. As described in the section Process for a Variety of Projects on page 380, this process is used both at a project level and for large programs, where an overall system is defined and a large number of integrated projects are developing individual componentsall leveraging the same system architecture.
IBM has also released the IBM Tivoli Unified Process, which addresses the needs of operations and systems management organizations. This process is based on a UK-based standard, IT Information Library (ITIL). IBM Tivoli Unified Process is not included in the RMC product but is hosted on the same tooling platform. Content from RMC and IBM Tivoli Unified Process can therefore be customized and used together. |
