RUP Discipline Touch Points View
This page is the collection of method elements containing the links that describe the RUP to ITUP integration grouped by the RUP disciplines.
Relationships
Main Description

The following RUP disciplines provide content that begins to address the integration between RUP and ITUP.

Not all the relationships between RUP and ITUP, as depicted in Figure1, are covered as touch point in this plug-in but may be covered in future releases.

Additionally, the following link provides access to method elements that describe the integration of RUP and ITUP from a different but complimentary perspective: Overview of the Relationship Between RUP and ITUP.

 Requirements

  • The RUP to ITUP Service Level Management Touch Point provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Requirements discipline with the ITUP Service Level Management process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to to ensure the requirements for an application are fully considered and addressed within the requirements discipline by working closely with the Service Level Management (SLM) process.

Analysis & Design

  • The RUP to ITUP Analysis and Design Touch Point provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Analysis and Design discipline with the ITUP Configuration Management process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to emphasize and elaborate on the importance of understanding the current production environment when performing architecturally related Analysis & Design tasks.

Configuration & Change Management

  • The RUP to ITUP Change Management Touch Point provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Change and Configuration Management discipline with the ITUP Change Management process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to take into account and prioritize any modification to or addition of a Configuration Item (CI) as requirements progress through application design and development.

Project Management

  • The RUP to ITUP Problem Management Touch Point provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Project Management discipline with the ITUP Problem Management process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to expand RUP's coverage of the process of problem management in order to minimize the adverse impact of Incidents and Problems on the business that are caused by errors within the IT Infrastructure and to prevent the recurrence of incidents related to these errors.

Test

  • The RUP to ITUP Capacity Management Touch Point provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Test discipline with the ITUP Capacity Management process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to set expectations for the nominal performance levels as specified in the Service Level Agreement (SLA).
  • The RUP to ITUP Configuration Management Touch This page provides an inside look at unifying the RUP Test discipline with the ITUP Configuration process offering a heightened awareness of how software development processes affect and are affected by IT operations. The goal of this touch point is to ensure the test discipline derives and builds the test environment from the live production environment and its inventory/set of Configuration Items (CIs).


 Diagram depicting ITUP and RUP Relationship

Figure1 - RUP and ITUP Relationship