Introduction to Environment

• Purpose
• Relation to Other Workflows
• Concepts
  • Concepts: Process Configuration
  • Concepts: Implementing a Process in an Organization
  • Concepts: Managing Organizational Change
  • Concepts: The Underlying Model of Rational Unified Process

Purpose

The environment workflow focuses on the activities necessary to configure the process for a project. It describes the activities required to develop the guidelines in support of a project. The purpose of the environment activities is to provide the software development organization with the software development environment - both processes and tools - that will support the development team.

However, this workflow of the Rational Unified Process does not cover issues such as:

• Selecting, acquiring, and getting the development tools to work, or
• Maintaining the development environment.

The Concepts: Implementing a Process in an Organization, gives a step-by-step procedure to how to implement a process in an organization. However, this procedure is not described in terms of workers, activities and artifacts.

Relation to Other Workflows

The Environment workflow provides the supporting environment for a project. In doing so, it supports all other workflows:

• Business modeling workflow
• Requirements workflow
• Analysis & Design workflow
• Implementation workflow
• Test workflow
• Deployment workflow

The Environment workflow is one of the supporting workflows, which it also can be supporting:

• Configuration & Change Management workflow
• Project Management workflow