Developing Applications with Java™ and UML

The Plans

The plans I present here cover three categories. The first plan, which the project team must create from scratch, is called the phase plan. The Unified Process does not provide a template for this plan because it is unique to each project. This plan represents the milestones and iterations found for the lifecycle of the project. The target audience of this plan is senior management.

The second category of plan is the high-level overview plan for the phase. These are also called workflow plans. There will be one overview plan for each iteration within a phase. These plans are at a macro level in that they represent groups of project activities that must be accomplished by the team. Each task found on the overview plan will explode into ...