Example: Small Project Development Case - Introduction
| Table of Contents - Introduction - General Tailoring - Project Lifecycle - Inception - Elaboration - Construction - Transition - Artifacts | A Development Case describes how the process is applied for a specific project or organization. It includes details such as: - which optional activities and artifacts will be used, and which will be dropped, - the relative timing of activities for each phase, - which tools will be used, and - the level of formality to be applied. |
This is an example Development Case geared to projects with the following characteristics:
- small project (less than 10 people, less than a year in duration)
- products deployed either at a customer site or deployed via the web (RUP artifacts and activities related to shrink-wrapped packaged products are not included)
- the software development environment (tools, computing infrastructure, test environment, configuration management environment, and so on) is already set up, or described separately
- low management complexity (one development team, one customer, and one product)
- a relatively informal process is acceptable.
This Development Case is, however, only an example. It can be tailored for use by projects with other characteristics, such as fewer tools, differing levels of formality, and so on.
Note that it follows a simplified version of the standard Development Case template.