Customizing Rational Unified Process in a Systems Integration Scenario

Abstract

This paper presents a customization of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) in a systems integration scenario in a large telecommunication company. The purpose of congregating existing systems is to leverage greater benefits from the company'scomputer systems. RUP has been chosen as the software development process due to its strong focus on promoting the fulfillment of the needs of end-users, while all along increasing chances that the process be delivered within an estimated schedule and budget. However, despite the undisputed interest in RUP, there is a gap in the total amount of empirical studies on the adoption and introduction of RUP in the context of specific project types. Moreover, there is little research in investigating and adopting RUP in system integration scenarios. In this paper we investigate the right process-level of RUP to be applied to the systems integration project in a real world business scenario. In addition we evaluate the suitability of RUP for this project'scontext. Evaluation results present advantages and disadvantages of using RUP in projects of the type described here while areas of future work are identified and presented.