The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) extends the Rational Unified Process (RUP) to address the needs of large enterprises with multiple systems and development teams. It introduces two new phases - Production and Retirement. It also enhances RUP with seven new disciplines like Enterprise Business Modeling, Portfolio Management, and Enterprise Architecture that address enterprise-level concerns beyond software development. The EUP provides a comprehensive lifecycle approach for managing enterprise projects.

1. Enterprise Unified Process
Ready to change your enterprise thought process
Presented By: Soumen Chatterjee

2. What is EUP?
“ The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) is an
extension to the RUP that is best for organizations
with multiple systems and multiple development
teams. The EUP includes new disciplines and
phases, which should be tailored into the
standard RUP, making it more effective for these
types of organizations” [EUP 2005]

3. RUP Limitations
• RUP is very much development
focused process
• No visibility beyond the software
development boundary like enterprise
level issues and different management
aspects of the organizations.

4. Going beyond RUP

5. EUP Lifecycle Phases

6. Two New Phases…
Production Phase
The primary focus of the Production phase is offering
required assistance to the end users by clarifying
their queries, resolving the production issues through
the combination of root-cause analysis and applying
appropriate fixes which includes dealing with change
request from users as well.
Retirement Phase
This phase guides us how to effectively
decommission the product from the production phase
to the retired phase.

7. Seven new disciplines …..
• Operations and Support Discipline
 Facilitates uninterrupted operations of software
systems.
 Aimed to ensure a fault tolerant environment and
recoverable system through appropriate backup &
disaster recovery plan.
• Enterprise Business Modelling Discipline
 Helps to distinguish the relationship between Business
process, domain process, enterprise activities,
functional entities and functional operations.
 Helps identifying the goals, targets, and vision for your
enterprise.

8. Seven new disciplines ….
• Portfolio Management Discipline
Enterprise success factor depends on the overall efficiency and the
effectiveness of managing a diversified mix of software portfolio
(collection of software systems). Portfolio and Program management
(maintaining a software systems inventory snap-shot) must be a
continuous activity throughout the enterprise system lifecycle as it to
mitigate enterprise risks.
• Enterprise Architecture Discipline
The Enterprise Architecture discipline defines state-of-the art
enterprise architecture which includes architectural frameworks,
reference architectures and architectural standard & guidelines.

9. Seven new disciplines …
• Strategic Reuse Discipline
 Reusing wide varieties of software assets starting
from source code to architectural frameworks
• People Management Discipline
 Focuses the human oriented management aspect
development of any IT organization.
 HR strategies that aligned with the organization’s
unique IT strategy is one of the most important
success factors of today’s IT industry

10. Seven new disciplines ….
• Enterprise Administration Discipline
 Covers the enterprise level administrative responsibilities
and initiatives to provide an active support towards the
project teams

11. Enterprise Architecture Requirements Workflow
The primary goal of
your enterprise
architecture is to
enable the business
to meets its IT goals
and objectives, not
simply to define the
"cool technologies"
that the IT people
get to work with.

12. Enterprise Architecture Refinement workflow

13. Enterprise Business Process Modelling

14. Portfolio Management

15. Reusable Assets

16. EUP disciplines, roles,
deliverables and relevant tools
Disciplines Participant Roles Deliverable Artifacts Tools
Operations and
Support
Operator, Support
Manager, Customer
Representative, Operations
Manager, Support
Developer, Support
Manager, System Support
Representative
Alert, Defect Report, Fix, Hot Fix, Usage
report, Backups, Disaster Recovery Plan,
System, System Support Plan, System
Operation Plan, Service Pack
IBM Tivoli (www.tivoli.com), Operations-
oriented tools by Opsware, Inc.
(www.opsware.com), Remedy
(www.remedy.com) ,Revelation Help Desk
(http://gg1.revelationhelpdesk.com)
Enterprise Business
Modelling
Enterprise Business
Modeller, Enterprise
Stakeholder,
Enterprise business rules specification,
Enterprise business process model,
Enterprise domain model, Enterprise
mission statement, Enterprise vision,
Organization model, Project proposal,
Modelling Guidance, Enterprise Business
Glossary, Project Proposal, Enterprise
Goals and Targets
Whiteboards, Modelling tools, Diagramming
tools, Business activity monitoring (BAM)
software
Portfolio
Management
Vendor Manager, Portfolio
Manager, Enterprise
Configuration Control
Board, Program Manager,
Program Reviewer
Portfolio, Portfolio Plan, Trouble Ticket,
Contract, Program, Program Plan,
Enterprise Risk List, Enterprise Risk
Management Plan, Enhancement
Request, Request For Information,
Request For Proposals
Artemis 7 (us.aisc.com), Primavera
Enterprise (www.primavera.com), PMOffice
(www.systemcorp.com), UMT
(www.umt.com)

17. EUP disciplines, roles, deliverables
and relevant tools
Enterprise
Architecture
Enterprise Architect,
Application Architect,
Technical Reviewer,
Reuse Engineer,
Technical Reviewer
Candidate Architecture, Enterprise
Architecture Model, Enterprise
Business Architecture Requirements,
Reference Architecture, Enterprise
security Plan, Enterprise Technical
Requirements
Modelling tools like System Architect from
Popkin (www.popkin.com) and
Rational Rose/XDE from IBM Rational
(www.ibm.com),
Diagramming tools such as Microsoft Visio
(www.microsoft.com) and CorelDraw
(www.corel.com), Interactive
presentation tools like Webex
(www.webex.com), Non-interactive
communication tools: like Groove
(www.grove.net) or Wikis
(www.wiki.org) and Whiteboards
Strategic Reuse Reuse Engineer, Reuse
Manager, Reuse
Registrar, Reuse
Consumer
Asset Criteria, Asset Rework Plan,
Configured Asset, Announcement, ,
Published Asset, Robust Asset,
Reuse Guidance, Reuse
Measurement Plan, Reuse Program
Plan
Shared directory, Version control tool,
Reuse repository tool like Flashline
(www.flashline.com) , Logidex
(www.logiclibrary.com)
People Management Human Resource Manager Benefits Package, Contract, Education
Plan, Individual Career Plan, Position
definition, Staffing Request, Staffing
Forecast, Long Term Succession
Plan, Needs Assessment,
Organization Assessment
Web-based training tracking and
management system Intelex
(www.intelex.com/training) ,
PeopleSoft and several Open-source
options

18. EUP disciplines, roles, deliverables and relevant
tools
Enterprise
Administration
Information Administrator,
Enterprise
Administrator,
Network
Administrator,
Facilities
Administrator,
Security Administrator
Enterprise Data model, Enterprise
Intellectual Property, Enterprise Data
Guidance, Enterprise Facilities
Guidance, Enterprise Network and
Hardware Guidance, Enterprise
Security Guidance, Federal
Regulations, Legacy Data Source
Documentation, Enterprise
Computing Infrastructure Plan,
Enterprise development Guidance,
Industry Guidance, Enterprise
Facilities Plan
IBM Tivoli (www.tivoli.com), 360Facility
(www.360facility.com) and
ManageSoft (www.managesoft.com)
Software Process
Improvement
Process Engineer Existing Process, IT Process, Process
Implementation Plan, Process Vision,
Development Case, Organizational-
Level Development Case
RUP Modeler, RUP Process Workbench,
RUP Builder, IRIS Process Author
(www.osellus.com) with its RUP
bridge, Waypointer
(www.jaczone.com) , Wiki
(www.wiki.org), Groupware and
collaboration like eRoom
(www.documentum.com) or Groove
Virtual Office (www.groove.net)

19. Examining EUP: A summary
• Introduces a proper enterprise project lifecycle within the
enterprise.
• Successfully addresses the enterprise aspects rather than just
Software Development
• Enhances the Rational Unified Process disciplines with the
additional diversified disciplines like enterprise business
modelling, portfolio management, enterprise architecture,
strategic reuse, people management, enterprise
administration, software process improvement and operations
& support

20. Copyright Declarations and
Acknowledgement
• EUP images are used with kind permission of Scott
W Ambler
• Enterprise Unified Process @copyright 2003-2005
Scott W. Ambler

21. References
1. [EUP concept] www.ambysoft.com
2. [EUP 2005] Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational
Unified Process by Scott W. Ambler, John Nalbone, and Michael
Vizdos, published Prentice Hall PTR
3. Enterprise Unified Process, The: Extending the Rational Unified
Process By Scott W. Ambler, John Nalbone, Michael J. Vizdos,
Published by Prentice Hall PTR, ISBN: 0-13-191451-0
4. Handbook on Enterprise Architecture, by Bernus, P., Nemes, L.
and G. Schmidt (eds.) , Springer, (2003), ISBN is 3540003436
5. Balancing Agility and Discipline: A Guide for the Perplexed by Barry
Boehm, Richard Turner,
6. http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/mda.htm
7. http://www.enterpriseunifiedprocess.com/

22. References
• Examining Enterprise Unified Process, Soumen
Chatterjee
• Examining Enterprise Unified Process, Soumen
Chatterjee, SDA Asia, Volume 15, 2007
• Enterprise Unified Process: Low Cholesterol, High Fibre
Enterprise Diet, Soumen Chatterjee, MDA Radar
• Enterprise Strategy and Governance: An Easy Way to
Get Lost in Translation, Soumen Chatterjee, MDA Radar

23. Time to think……Choice is yours.

24. Thanking You
Soumen Chatterjee, Enterprise Architect
TOGAF Certified Practitioner, Sun Certified Enterprise
Architect, IBM Certified Specialist in RUP
Member of IEEE, IEEE Standards, ACM, ISACA and IASA
soumenc@acm.org

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