Rational, a division of IBM Software based in Lexington, Mass., also plans to extend its best practices and methodologies, called Rational Unified Process, across IBM's other software brands Tivoli, ...

Specifically, the company is donating the meta model for describing development processes, the tools for customizing and creating processes, and a portion of the Rational Unified Process, said Roger ...

In the software development realm, Rational Software Inc. sits near the center. As the developer of the industry-standard UML (Unified Modeling Language) notation and the purveyor of a leading suite ...

The Rational Unified Process is a software development process created by IBM that provides a framework for development of project software. A library of best practices in the industry guides ...

Many programmers feel that the Rational Unified Process (RUP) is too rigid and structured for small development projects. Proponents of agile and extreme programming have similar concerns. To answer ...

Like others, IBM’s Rational Software Division is coming back to a concept from an earlier computing era -- the Rapid Application Development, or RAD, tool. As enterprise Java skills remain in somewhat ...

In an upgrade to its software development arsenal, IBM will replace the Rational Process Workbench with software and best practices focused on SOA, collaboration, and reduction of software project ...