Introduction to Environment
Concepts
- Concepts: Development Environment
- Concepts: Effect of Implementing a Process
- Concepts: Environment Practices
- Concepts: Implementing a Process in an Organization
- Concepts: Implementing a Process in a Project
- Concepts: Implementing the Rational Unified Process
- Concepts: Managing Organizational Change
- Concepts: Mentoring
- Concepts: Pilot Project
- Concepts: Process Configuration
- Concepts: Process Quality
- Concepts: Supporting Tools
- Concepts: The Underlying Model of the Rational Unified Process
Purpose 
The environment workflow focuses on the activities necessary to configure the process for a project. It describes the activities required to develop the guidelines in support of a project. The purpose of the environment activities is to provide the software development organization with the software development environment - both processes and tools - that will support the development team.
Read the Concepts:
Process Configuration, to understand the basics about how to configure the
Rational Unified Process.
The Concepts: Implementing a Process in an Organization, gives a step-by-step procedure to how to implement a process in an organization. However, this procedure is not described in terms of workers, activities and artifacts.
The Concepts: Implementing a Process in a Project, explains how to implement a process, together with supporting tools, in a software-development project.
Relation to Other Workflows
The Environment workflow provides the supporting environment for a project. In doing so, it supports all other workflows:
- Business Modeling workflow
- Requirements workflow
- Analysis & Design workflow
- Implementation workflow
- Test workflow
- Deployment workflow
The Environment workflow is one of the supporting workflows, which it also can be supporting:
- Configuration & Change Management workflow
- Project Management workflow
