Introduction to the Embedded Software Development Practices included in the IBM Rational Solution for Systems and Software Engineering

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IBM Rational Solution for Systems and
Software Engineering
Embedded Software (ESW) Engineering Practices Introduction

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Process Management and Enactment
The engine of lifecycle management
 Improve quality and predictability by
leveraging proven practices and
patterns of success
 Quickly and easily compose right-
sized project/team processes and
deploy process, methods and tools
to project
 Surface process guidance in-context
directly within practitioner tools to
speed on-boarding, process
adoption and return on investment
in Rational tools
 Simplify compliance with pre-defined methods and mappings to industry standards and
regulations
 Increase productivity and turn “know-how” into competitive advantage

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Practices - modular solution components
Guidance for software & systems development, management, governance, and
more
 A practice is an approach to solving one or several
commonly occurring problems
– Practices are intended as "chunks" of process for
adoption, enablement, and configuration
– Address one aspect of the development process that
can span disciplines/domains/lifecycle.
 Practices apply the concepts of “components” or “services”
to process management
– Include associated tool guidance and tool configuration
assets
– Include recommended metrics to assess practice
adoption (process metrics) and project status
(product/project metrics)
– Generally re-usable across a variety of lifecycle models
 Practices enable a compositional approach
to building methods with the following benefits:
– Adaptability and scalability
– Mapped to operational objectives
– Incremental adoption
– Easy to configure and use
– Enable community development
Results:
 Avoids self-inflicting too much process
 Faster and more predictable results
 Measured Improvement
Practice - Table of Contents
 Motivation – why do it, benefits
 How to adopt this practice
 Enablement, and reference material
 Key Concepts
 Work Products – what you produce
 Tasks – what you do
 Guidance – how you do it
 Tools guidance for executing the tasks
 Recommended Metrics/Measurements
 Related practices

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Accessing Practice Content in the Image
 Navigate to the index.htm file in the ESW folder on the Jazz Server as shown below. Double-
click the index.htm file to open it in a web browser.

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ESW Practice Content – Areas to Explore
• Welcome Page: overview of the content
• Getting Started: helpful information to
initiate a project
• Delivery Processes: the orchestration of
the tasks within the practices to deliver
systems and software engineering
• Practices: the core best practices and
capability patterns composed of tasks
• Roles Sets: the roles performing the
tasks
• Tasks: atomic steps of work that make up
the practices
• Work Products: input and output
documents and artifacts of the tasks
• Tools: tool mentors to demonstrate tool
usage

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Review the Welcome Page

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Review the Getting Started Pages
Review these pages using the browser on
the left or the links on the right

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Explore the Delivery Process
Explore the activities through the
browser on the left or by double clicking
the activities on the right

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SSE Solution – RTC Process Description
All projects created using the
ESW Process Template include
a link to the ESW published
website

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Explore Practices
Explore the practices through the
browser on the left or the links on the
right

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Explore Practices
Examining the practice,
you can click on work
products, roles, tasks, and
additional guidance

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SSE Solution – RTC Work Item Templates
Several Work Item Templates have been
created in RTC based on the practices
and tasks in RMC

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SSE Solution – RTC Work Item Templates
All Work Items created from one of these
Work Item Templates include a link to the
Practice/Task description

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Explore Roles Sets
Roles sets show task and
work product responsibilities
for each role

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Explore Tasks
Each task description includes role responsibilities, input work products, output
work products, step by step guidance, and additional information such as tool
mentors to illustrate how to accomplish the task with a specific tool

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Explore Work Products
Each work product description includes role responsibilities, task association, and
additional information such as templates and checklists

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Explore Tools
Tools include tool mentors that provide step by step instructions for using tools to
accomplish tasks or task steps

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