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Project management with Rational Team Unifying Platform

Martin C. Brown, Freelance writer

Martin C. Brown, a Studio B author, is a former IT Director with experience in cross-platform integration. A keen developer he has produced dynamic sites for blue-chip customers, including HP and Oracle and is the Technical Director of Foodware.net. Now a freelance writer and consultant, MC, as he is better known, works closely with Microsoft as an SME, is the LAMP Technologies Editor for LinuxWorld magazine, a core member of the AnswerSquad.com team and has written a number of books on topics as diverse as Microsoft Certification, iMacs and open source programming. Despite his best attempts, he remains a regular and voracious programmer on many platforms and numerous environments. MC can be contacted at questions@mcslp.com, or through the Web site, http://www.mcslp.com.

Summary: In this tutorial you'll get a look at the Team Unifying Platform (TUP). TUP is a combination of the main Rational tools used in a team environment coupled with a further management and collation tool, called the Rational ProjectConsole. ProjectConsole collects information and statistics from the other tools in the Rational suite and provides a Web-based interface to the information.

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Date: 20 Aug 2004
Level: Introductory
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About this tutorial

The Rational® Unified Process (RUP) is a methodology for developing application software. The RUP defines the methods, documentation and processes required to build the application and to ensure that information is distributed to the various members of the software development team. Although you can follow the RUP processes, the development process is much easier if you use the automation tools provided by Rational Software.

Rational tools such as Rational RequisitePro, Rational XDE and Rational ClearCase are available individually. They can also integrate with each other. However, in a team environment where there are many members of the software development process who need to access and use information from the different applications, it can become difficult to effectively share the information. Furthermore, as a project or program manager, it can be difficult to collate, manage and monitor the progress of development.

In this tutorial, you're going to take a look at the Team Unifying Platform (TUP). TUP is a combination of the main Rational tools which are used in a team environment coupled with a further management and collation tool, called the Rational ProjectConsole. ProjectConsole collects information and statistics from the other tools in the Rational suite and provides a Web-based interface to the information.

Key topics covered include:

Overview of the Rational system, including TUP and RUP.
Walk through of a typical project and where the different components are used.
How to use and deploy the ProjectConsole to provide status information.
How to build and produce reports from the system that can be used by the team to monitor progress.

You're also going to get your feet a little wet by looking at some of the applications in the TUP to demonstrate how the information is built and exchanged between team members.

Throughout the tutorial, use the ClassicsCD.com sample data that is provided with the TUP.

Prerequisites

Individual tools within the Rational Suite are available from the developerWorks download site. The Team Unifying Platform is only available through your local IBM supplier.

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