policy capacity focuses on the managerial and organizational abilities to inform policy decisions with sound research and analysis, and facilitate policy implementation with operational efficiency. it stems from a view of the policy process that is rational and positivistic, in which optimal policy choices can be identified, selected, and implemented with objectivity. by itself, however, policy...

This paper presents an overview of the Rational Unified Process® The Rational Unified Process is a software engineering process, delivered through a web-enabled, searchable knowledge base. The process enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices via guidelines, templates and tool mentors for all critical software lifecycle activities. The knowledge base allows development tea...

This paper describes an assessment of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) based on the Capability Maturity Model (CMM). For each key practice (KP) identified in each key process area (KPA) of CMM levels 2 and 3, the Rational Unified Process was assessed to determine whether it satisfied the KP or not. For each KPA, the percentage of the key practices supported was calculated, and the results wer...

In the August issue of The Rational Edge, we began a three-part series to provide an overview of the latest evolution of Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering,® or RUP SE.® RUP SE is an application of the Rational Unified Process,® or RUP,® software engineering process framework. RUP users should note that the currently available RUP Plug-In for SE is the RUP SE v1 Plug-In, which was...

This paper presents an overview of the Rational Unified Process® The Rational Unified Process is a software engineering process, delivered through a web-enabled, searchable knowledge base. The process enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices via guidelines, templates and tool mentors for all critical software lifecycle activities. The knowledge base allows development tea...