ORGANIZATION AND SPECIAL FEATURES

The book has two parts .

Part I describes the process, its context, its history, its structure, and its software development lifecycle. It describes some of the key features that differentiate the Rational Unified Process from other software development processes:

Chapter 1: Software Development Best Practices
Chapter 2: The Rational Unified Process
Chapter 3: Static Structure: Process Description
Chapter 4: Dynamic Structure: Iterative Development
Chapter 5: An Architecture-centric Process
Chapter 6: A Use-Case-Driven Process

Part II gives an overview of the various process components , or workflows. There is one chapter for each core process workflow.

Chapter 7: The Project Management Workflow
Chapter 8: The Business Modeling Workflow
Chapter 9: The Requirements Workflow
Chapter 10: The Analysis and Design Workflow
Chapter 11: The Implementation Workflow
Chapter 12: The Test Workflow
Chapter 13: The Configuration and Change Management Workflow
Chapter 14: The Environment Workflow
Chapter 15: The Deployment Workflow
Chapter 16: Typical Iteration Plans
Chapter 17: Configuring and Implementing the Rational Unified Process

Most workflow chapters are organized into six sections:

Purpose of the workflow
Definitions and key concepts
Workers and artifacts
A typical workflow: an overview of the activities
Tool support
Summary

Two appendixes summarize all the workers (the roles of the process) and artifacts (the work products of the process) that are introduced in Chapters 7 through 15. A list of acronyms and glossary of common terms are provided, as is a short annotated bibliography.