DEV475 Mastering Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UML ...

DEV475 Mastering Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with UMLAchieving Best PracticesAchieving Best Practices• Iterative approach• Guidance for activitiesand artifacts• Process focus onarchitecture• Use cases that drivedesign andimplementation• Models that abstractthe systemMastering Object Oriented Analysis and Design with UMLCopyright © 2003 Rational Software, all rights reserved34Examples:• The dynamic structure (phases and iterations) of the Rational Unified Processcreates the basis of iterative development.• The Project Management discipline describes how to set up and execute aproject using phases and iterations.• The Use-Case Model of the Requirements discipline and the risk list determinewhat functionality you implement in an iteration.• The Workflow Details of the Requirements discipline show the activities andartifacts that make requirements management possible.• The iterative approach allows you to progressively identify components, and todecide which one to develop, which one to reuse, and which one to buy.• The Unified Modeling Language (UML) used in the process represents the basisof visual modeling and has become the de facto modeling language standard.• The focus on software architecture allows you to articulate the structure: thecomponents, the ways in which they integrate, and the fundamental mechanismsand patterns by which they interact.1 - 34