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Key Concepts
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Key Concepts
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Key Concepts
The Rational Unified Process provides a quick summary of its most important
components.
Exercise: Learn about key concepts.
1
In the tree browser, expand Overview by clicking the + to its left, then click
Key Concepts
. (From now on, we'll abbreviate steps like these as follows: "Go to
Overview > Key Concepts
.")
A new Web page appears. The diagram at the top of the page shows the
relationships among key concepts of RUP (see Figure 8).
Figure 8
Key Concepts in the Rational Unified Process
2
Click a symbol in the graphic to learn more about that concept (key excerpts
follow).
A discipline shows all activities that produce a particular set of software assets.
RUP describes development disciplines at an overview level--including a
summary of all roles, workflows, activities, and artifacts that are involved.