Chapter 14 A Project Manager’s Guide to the RUP

You are a project manager and are just about to use the RUP approach. This chapter is a guide to understanding your role in a software development project using the RUP. You will find a definition of the role of project manager and its interactions with other roles. We will introduce some of the key artifacts that project managers will develop and use. Finally we will review some of the key RUP activities project managers are involved in.

The Mission of a Project Manager

There are many reasons why a project may fail or result in poor quality. Many of them may be attributed to all kinds of technical reasons, and we are often pretty quick to do so; technology is a convenient and nameless ...

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