How the Practitioner Uses RMC

RMC provides practitioners with productivity tools, guidance, and personalization technology.

RMC provides structure for the practitioner in three areas: productivity, guidance, and personalization. Let's walk through what RMC provides in each of these areas.

• Productivity. A key reason for following a process is to be more productive. RMC provides a number of productivity tools:

  - Templates to provide a starting point for producing key artifacts.
  
  

  - Roles, tasks, and artifacts to understand how to collaborate effectively with the rest of the team.
  
  

  - Tool mentors that provide detailed guidance on how to use a specific tool to carry out tasks described in the process.
  
  

  - Process advisor to understand how best to leverage tools by providing context-sensitive process guidance directly within your development environment.
  
  

• Guidance. RMC provides a number of different types of guidance:

  - Guidelines, techniques, and concepts to help teams learn about new approaches in software development and how to leverage key technologies and techniques effectively.
  
  

  - Examples so that teams can learn from the success of others.
  
  

  - Checklists for rapid assessment of work in progress and for seeing how it can be improved.
  
  

• Personalization. Based on your experience level, role, and interest, you can personalize your interface toward the process to focus on what matters to you, either through MyView for Web browser access or through Process Advisor using an Eclipse-based interface.