Purpose:
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To make the identified templates ready to use by the project.
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Sub-topics:
Obtain Existing Templates
Templates may be available from different sources. Some development organizations keep templates in their asset
repositories for cross-project reuse. Some projects will make use of the ones shipped with the RUP product. In other
cases, satisfactory templates might not be available, so the project should consider developing its own.
Templates that ship with the RUP are packaged into two plug-ins that can be included in any RUP configuration built
using Rational Method Composer, and thus be accessible to the project members via the
published RUP web site. The RUP templates contained in this configuration are listed on the Templates page.
The templates can also be accessed from the "Templates" section of the work product description pages.
Note: A project does not require templates for all of it's work product types. In some cases, a relevant example
provides equal or better value. Some documentation jobs are best done using tool automation. Document generation tools,
such as Rational SoDA™, provides lots of ready-made report templates to use for generating reports from project work
products.
Develop New Templates
The project management might decide to develop new templates as part of the project if one or more of the identified
templates is not available or deemed not applicable to the project. This work should be accounted for in project
planning, assigned to a team member and followed up as you would for the development of any project work product. These
tasks are often performed on a just-in-time basis, or they might even be a result of transforming a produced work
product into a template.
The project manager should consider promoting any new or modified templates as candidate assets for future projects.
This is usually done as part of project assessment work and is often a collaboration with the organization's process
improvement team.
Customize the Templates for Project Use
Preparing templates for a project includes customizing them to fit the context of the project, and the style of the
delivery process. Some of the traditional templates that ship with the RUP might be too formal for some types of
projects, but not formal enough for others. Customizing the collected templates ranges from just inserting the project
meta-data, such as company name, project code, and logo, to removing or adding complete sections. Most of the RUP
templates have some process guidance in them, to provide in-document assistance for the production of the work product.
This text is meant to be erased as the work product evolves. Projects that want all process guidance to be an integral
part of the RUP web site, can remove this in-document guidance from the templates as part of their customization task.
Make the Templates Accessible
There are different ways of making templates available to the project members. The most efficient way is to make them
part of the workspace of the tool you use for the production of the work product, for example, if you use Rational
Rose™ for designing the system, then it is desirable that your model template appears as a selection when you select to
create a new model file. Different applications have different ways of handling this integration. Refer to the on-line
help of the application for further details. Regardless of whether its possible to achieve this level of integration,
it is valuable to make the templates part of your project-specific process web site to allow the team members to browse
and inspect the templates.
The RUP templates are packaged as method plug-ins, and can be included in your method configuration by selecting one or
more of these plug-ins in Rational Method Composer. You can also make your own templates available using
the plug-in technology. For more information on plug-ins and configurations, see Concept: Tailoring RUP.
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