Work with the Project Managers & Management
As a Process Engineer working with Project Management, you will find different people and different projects have different problem areas. This section offers tips and tricks that have been found to be useful when implementing a software process such as the Unified Process in the Project management discipline.
Ideas that were beneficial
Publish a comprehensive Project Web and keep it up to date.
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Use a UML Model of
all artifacts on the project.
Because the RUP or Unified Process can be rather daunting when working with it for the first time, your software engineer or Project manager may need some help in understanding exactly what each Artifact is and how it relates to other Artifacts. Artifact names can be very misleading and one person may imagine something totally different from what another is trying to explain.
Think about it, as a Project manager you tell a Requirements Analyst to develop a Use Case about registering a user name. Their mental model of your request could look something like a Use Case UML model element with a name underneath it:
Or they may envisage a little more to their mental model of what you asked them, imagining a whole Use Case diagram:
Other people may well envisage a Word document describing a use Case with no UML notation at all, just text in a pre-defined structure.
Yet a different person may envisage the abstraction of the second UML Use Case diagram combined with the Word document in the third example above. They imagine a Use Case diagram, made up of one or many Actors stereotyped as Modeling Elements, and one or many Use Case modeling elements, which could relate to one or many Use Case Word Documents, which were derived and created from a Use Case Word Template. See this in the UML model example 4.
Because of this very problem, it was found the best use of UML was to use it to define the project artifacts themselves. We derived a Project Management Artifact Model, which contained each Artifact and its relation to any other Artifact.
Please go to the Download Section under project management and look for the Project Management Artifact Model. Firstly read the PM Artifact Model - More Details section then download it. Without reading the More Details, it may seem a little out of context.
Align the standard process terminology you are using with your Team's
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Use Activity diagrams to document all the main activities
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