A MODEL OF THE RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS

A MODEL OF THE RATIONAL UNIFIED PROCESS

A process describes who is doing what, how, and when. The Rational Unified Process is represented using four primary modeling elements:

• Workers: the who

• Activities: the how

• Artifacts: the what

• Workflows: the when

The first three elements are shown in Figure 3-1, and Figure 3-5 shows a workflow.

Figure 3-1. Worker, activities, and artifact

Figure 3-5. Example of a workflow