The Unified Process (UP) builds upon the classic processes and tries to incorporate the best parts of agile frameworks at the same time.

UML – Unified Modeling Language, contains a robust methodology for modeling an object oriented system. UML is used throughout Part 2 of the book

Phases of the Unified Process

Similar to the traditional model, UP has separate phases that are semi-aligned to traditional process models.

Inception is a combination of Communication and Planning.

Elaboration is a combination of Planning and Modeling.

Construction is the same.

Transition is a combination of Construction and Deployment.

Production – is the process of moving software through Deployment.

The Unified Process was originally found on Access 2 Learn

Assistant Professor

Walter Wimberly is an Assistant Professor at a regional college in Tennessee, teaching Computer Science in the Software Engineering track. He works as a student advisor, oversees curriculum changes, develops new courses, and manages the advisory panel.
Walter taught full time for about 7 years, before going back into “industry” as a full stack Software Developer for a dozen years. There he focused on web based projects coding in JavaScript/jQuery and utilizing the Bootstrap CSS Framework on the front-end, and coding in PHP, ASP/ASP.Net, SQL on the back-end.

Since he loves teaching, he taught as an adjunct web and digital media classes for eight (8) years, while working in industry, and has since returned to teaching full time.

He has been married for over 25 years, and is father to several special needs boys. As such, he is working on some projects to help others who have special needs to be self-sufficient, and support the care givers of those with special needs. Check out his Autism blog for more info.

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