10 Facts About Unified Process

Unified Software Development Process or Unified Process is an iterative and incremental software development process framework.

Unified Process is not simply a process, but rather an extensible framework which should be customized for specific organizations or projects.

Name Unified Process as opposed to Rational Unified Process is generally used to describe the generic process, including those elements which are common to most refinements.

The Unified Process name is used to avoid potential issues of trademark infringement since Rational Unified Process and RUP are trademarks of IBM.

Unified Process insists that architecture sits at the heart of the project team's efforts to shape the system.

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Unified Process requires the project team to focus on addressing the most critical risks early in the project life cycle.

Refinements of the Unified Process vary from each other in how they categorize the project disciplines or workflows.

The Rational Unified Process defines nine disciplines: Business Modeling, Requirements, Analysis and Design, Implementation, Test, Deployment, Configuration and Change Management, Project Management, and Environment.

The Enterprise Unified Process extends RUP through the addition of eight "enterprise" disciplines.

Organizations utilizing the Unified Process invariably incorporate their own modifications and extensions.