[epf-dev] Changes to OpenUP/Basic Disciplines

[Jim Ruehlin <jruehlin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

The Architecture and Development package teams are considering changing
disciplines in OpenUP/Basic and we wanted to see if anyone has any
significant comments, support, or objections. You can comment directly
to the bugzilla at https://bugs.eclipse.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=174028
.  

 

We're considering re-organizing the disciplines in OpenUP/Basic in the
following ways:

*	Rename the Implementation discipline to Development and move
design and implementation tasks into this discipline. 
*	Change A&D to Architecture and have 2 architecture tasks in this
discipline. Some analysis would still be performed here in the context
of defining the architecture. 

 

The motivations for doing this are:

*	People move back-and-forth between implementation and design,
often seamlessly. In fact, these terms appear to be almost
interchangeable in the Agile community. So it seems to make sense to
have a view that packages these tasks together. 
*	Making Architecture a discipline raises its visibility and
importance. 

 

Disciplines are not structural. They're essentially a label for a group
of method content elements. This makes it easier to extend, change or
remove the disciplines. 

 

 

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Jim Ruehlin, IBM Rational

RUP Content Developer

Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) Committer www.eclipse.org/epf

email:   jruehlin@xxxxxxxxxx

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