|  | Level: Introductory Philippe Kruchten (pbk@ece.ubc.ca), Staff, University of British Columbia
Annie Kuntzmann-CombellesQ-Labs
21 Nov 2003 This paper highlights the key concepts that a mature organization (a Level 3 development unit) has to demonstrate and how the Rational Unified Process components match these requirements. This is a must read if you are looking to explore software engineering processes, in particular RUP, to successfully fulfill CMM requirements.
Today, companies must continually search for ways to achieve a higher degree of performance. The challenge of the future is to compete at a global level. These common symptoms become even more obvious when bidding on the worldwide market:
- Need for performance: too many bugs are observed at the validation phase and an unstable version of the product is put on the market to meet the delivery target
- Need for efficiency: projects overcome budget and planning
- Loss of market share: competitors perform better and deliver better quality
- Lack of competent resources: the turnover is high and/or hiring new engineers is extremely difficult
- Need to integrate evolving technologies with minimal risks: technologies supporting products have to follow the trends; teams are not always experienced enough to meet the challenge
More generally, we can say there is a strong need to optimize all facets of the developed product.
Therefore, making the widely accepted assumption that the process to develop the product impacts heavily upon the results, one of the most common scenarios would be to address the software process to improve products.
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About the authors | 
| | Philippe Kruchten is former director and general manager of the IBM Rational Software Process Business Unit, in charge of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). He worked with Rational for thirteen years, in various functions and places: France, Sweden, the US, and Vancouver, Canada. Philippe's main interests right now, besides software architecture and design, are software engineering and the development process. He is campaigning, in Canada, for the concept of state-licensed professional software engineers. |
| | | Annie Kuntzmann-Combelles is an article contributor. |
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