EPF base

1.5.1.1

Minor bug fixes only.

1.5.1

The key revisions for this release are:

New practice "Project Process Tailoring", in order to provide basic coverage for the Environment discipline.

New practice "Method Development". This practice replaces the "Method Authoring Method" (MAM).  The new practice consolidates and updates authoring guidelines, and integrates the content into the EPF Practices library.

Cleanup of Agile Business Rule Development, so that it publishes properly with the other practices.

Other minor bug fixes.

1.5.0.4 

Bugzilla 281165 - Renamed practice "two-level project planning" to "release planning".

Bugzilla 285042 - Renamed "software design" and "software implementation" slots to "technical design" and "technical implementation". 

Bugzilla 268148 - Moved build artifact to "core.tech.common".

Many minor bug fixes.

1.5 

This is the initial release of the practices library, which is included as part of the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) 1.5.

Most of the open source content derives from OpenUP 1.0, refactored to support independent practices.

These are the key new features in the core:

• Work product slots to allow practices to be independent of each other
• Default navigation view so that ad hoc configurations of practices can be published easily with a view
• Guidance and work products reusable across practices have been moved into common plug-ins
• Category, role, and tool definitions separated into separate plug-ins to allow them to be easily removed and replaced by alternative categorizations.

RMC extension

7.5.1-2

This release includes the following new material:

1. New enterprise practices:

• Adoption Through Execution
• Asset-based Development
• Asset-based Development Governance
• Method Development
• Software Capability Program Management

2. New software development practices:

• Data Design
• Deployment Management
• Developing User Support and Training
• Method Development - replaces, consolidates, and expands the Method Authoring Method previously provided as a separate download
• Project Process Tailoring
• Reviews
• Risk Management
• Staged Integration

3. Incorporation and updates to content previously released as separate downloads

• Systems development practices
• Service-oriented modeling and architecture practices (including Use-case Driven Business Modeling, Service Identification, Service Realization, and Service Specification)
• User-story driven development
• Determine the Application Modernization Strategy
• Managing Performance Through Measurements
• Product Portfolio Management
• Setting Up a Performance Measurement systems - updated with new metrics guidance
• Practices for Agile Development process - updated and renamed to Disciplined Agile Delivery

4. Component-based Software Architecture practice has been extended with basic operational modeling.

5. Updated tool mentors for IBM Rational tools

6. Re-categorization of practices to allow for the larger set of practices covering a broad set of disciplines. Roles, work products, and tasks aligned to a common categorization scheme.

7. New work product slot "technical_approach_slot" was added under the general context. Includes work products like deployment plan and build procedures.

8. Naming changes for configurations

<context>.<name>-licensing

7.5.0.1

New practices added for setting up and managing performance measurement.

Burndown and velocity metrics have been rewritten to conform with standard definitions, and to differentiate iteration and release burndown. New metrics have been added for Test Case Execution Status, Test Coverage of Requirements, Build Health, Test Status and Glide Path, and Test Case Defect Yield. Updated metrics include Code Health, Iteration Velocity, Fixes Failing Verification, Defect Distribution, and Iteration Length. Test Coverage is now named Code Coverage

Deleted "business architecture" slot. Tasks that had this slot as input were changed so that "business design" was input instead.

The tools category is now alphabetically sorted.

Many minor bug fixes.

7.5.0 iFix1

Corrections to "supporting" plug-in attributes to ensure published configurations only display referenced shared content.

7.5

This is the initial release of the IBM practices, which are included as part of Rational Method Composer (RMC) 7.5.

IBM extensions to the core include the following:

• An IBM version of the default navigation view so that ad hoc configurations of practices can be published easily using process builder.
• Additional guidance and work products reusable across practices.
• Additional slots, categories, role, and tool definitions to support IBM practices and IBM practice extensions.