Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering Part II: System architecture

Part I included a discussion of systems, the challenges facing the modern systems developer and how RUP SE addresses them, RUP SE Unified Modeling Language (UML)-based modeling and requirement specification techniques, and the use of UML semantics. This month, in Part II, we will focus on system architecture and introduce the RUP SE architecture framework, which describes the internals of the system from multiple viewpoints. Part III, to be published in October, will cover requirements analysis and flowdown, an introduction to the method for deriving requirements, and specifications for the elements of the RUP SE framework. This will include a description of the Joint Realization Method, a novel technique for jointly deriving the specification of architectural elements across multiple viewpoints. Part III will also include a discussion of RUP SE programmatics.