Rational Unified Process: Disciplines

Introduction to Disciplines

A discipline provides a view into the underlying process elements within RUP from the perspective of a general discipline of skills. Each discipline describes a set of associated activities and artifacts based around a common skillset. RUP describes disciplines at an overview level-a summary of all roles, activities, and artifacts that require a given set of skills to perform the discipline. We also show, at a more detailed level, how roles collaborate to achieve useful goals, even where those roles are based on different disciplines. The work performed at this detailed level is termed "workflow details".

Descriptions of Disciplines

Each discipline is described as follows:

Introduction
Purpose of the discipline and relationships to other disciplines.

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Concepts
Key concepts that are important in order to understand the discipline.

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Workflow
A typical sequence of events when conducting the flow of work, expressed in terms of workflow details. A workflow detail is a grouping of activities that are done "together", presented with input and resulting artifacts.

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Activity Overview
The activities and roles in the discipline.

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Artifact Overview
The artifacts that are produced in this discipline, and the roles that are responsible.

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Guidelines Overview
More detailed explanations on how to use and produce the artifacts of the process.

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Disciplines



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