PURPOSE

PURPOSE

The purpose of the environment workflow is to support the development organization with both processes and tools. This support includes the following:

• Tool selection and acquisition

• Set up tools and configuration of tools to suit the organization

• Process configuration

• Process improvement

• Technical services to support the process: the information technology (IT) infrastructure, account administration, backup, and so on

Some of the activities related to process implementation and configuration are described in Chapter 17, Configuring and Implementing the Rational Unified Process.