About the Book
This book will examine the advantages achieved and challenges faced by organizations utilizing the Rational Unified Process (RUP), particularly in regards to outsourcing. As companies strive to cut costs and increase efficiencies in software development, allocating tasks to outside organizations has become more common. The relationship between an outsourcing organization and its contractor affects the success of projects and prevents the RUP from being implemented effectively. For example, the RUP stresses the importance of working directly with end users to elicit functional requirements. Yet many outsourced contracts are written which do not even consider how the contractor will interface with the end users, or whether the end users are even available. As a result, some projects are set up for failure from the beginning because of the lack of consideration of this issue. Mistakes made during this process are not discovered until late in the development cycle. By that time, the outsourcing organization receives software that is unsatisfactory, with insufficient funds left to correct the situation. Readers of this book will learn about outsourcing issues they will face before they occur, through lessons learned applying RUP on actual projects. This will allow them to better manage problems and will give them an improved ability to satisfy the needs of their customers, whether they are an outsourcing organization or a contractor.
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Features
Examines the challenges and advantages of managing outsourced projects with the Rational Unified Process (RUP)

• Coverage of key challenges faced by software development organizations
• Better manage problems and satisfy customer needs
• RUP is used by more than 10,000 companies around the world

Contents

Introduction to Outsourcing

Overview of the Rational Unified Process

Getting Started: Request for Proposals (RFPs), Proposals, and Contracts

Best Practices for Staffing the Outsourcing Organization’s Project Management Office (PMO)

Best Practices for Staffing the Contractor’s Software Project Team

Establishing the Software Development Environment

Inception: Kicking Off the Project

Identifying and Managing Risks

Navigating the Requirements Management Process

Construction Iterations: Staying on Target

Testing

Transitioning a System into Service

System Operations and Maintenance Issues

Using Consultants Effectively

The Project Postmortem

• Appendix A: Common Mistakes Utilizing RUP
• Appendix B: Implementing a Two-Stage Procurement Process
• Glossary