Development Case: Context and Applicability

Topics

• Background
• Context
• Applicability

Background 

This section places the configured process, described by this development case, in the context of the development organization and its standard processes and best practices.

It also describes the applicability of the configured process identifying re-use possibilities.

Context 

[Describe the context for the development case.  The text below provides the context for the example values used to populate the template.]

This development case is part of a Rational Unified Process process configuration.

It describes a typical process configuration aimed at medium size projects, of average formality, developing components using the Rational and MicroSoft tool sets.

Applicability 

[The composite nature of development cases is such that, in the appropriate circumstances, the individual discipline configurations could be reused as parts of other development cases.

Often an organization's initial development cases addresses multiple concerns (for example small projects, developing for the web and using Java).  In these circumstances the individual discipline configurations could be reused across multiple development cases.

For each of the dimensions of the configuration the following table should be completed:

The following disciplines are usually configured to reflect the size and formality of the project:

The following disciplines are usually configured to reflect the development style of  the project (for example real-time vs. non-real time or Microsoft vs. IBM):

The partially completed tables can be used as the basis for documenting the instantiated development case.]