Introduction to Environment
The environment discipline 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.
Read the Concepts:
RUP Tailoring, to understand the basics about how to customize the Rational
Unified Process (RUP).
The Concepts: Implementing a Process in a Project,
explains how to implement a process, together with supporting tools, in a
software-development project.
The Rational Process Workbench(TM)
product, provides guidance and tool support for configuring a process
at the organizational level.
The Environment discipline provides the supporting environment for a
project. In doing so, it supports all other disciplines.