Sample Application overview in RTC

MTM_Lifecycle_Understand

Understanding the context

The Money that Matters lifecycle scenario uses a fictitious banking company called JKE and a realistic software development project whose goal is to deliver Release 1 of the JKE Banking application.

The scenario centers on a single sprint by the team responsible for delivering an initiative called "Business Recovery Matters". All of the action within the scenario occurs within just one sprint for one team. The team is using IBM Rational Team Concert to plan, track, collaborate, and deliver the release. Collaborative work is performed with IBM Rational Requirements Composer to capture requirements, IBM Rational Software Architect Design Management to manage design information, and IBM Rational Quality Manager to plan, construct and execute tests. The scenario is a companion to the JKE Banking sample project shipped with those products. The scenario focuses on the practices, activities, and collaboration that occur in a single Sprint, as shown below.

  Figure 1: The focus of this scenario

This scenario can be applied to larger enterprise projects such as the one imagined for JKE Banking. To do so requires a hybrid agile approach, which is scaled to fit into an enterprise environment. The term "hybrid" is being used in the agile community to refer to combination of ideas from various methods, sometimes all agile methods but also sometimes from "traditional" sources, lean sources, and so on.

We can define a hybrid approach that includes the Disciplined Agile Delivery process framework, combined with Scrum terminology, and scaling factors which necessitate the need for upfront requirements management and release planning, multiple teams running iterations at the same time (where Scrum is applied), and an independent test team with a stabilization iteration before transitioning into production.

The JKE lifecycle is represented in the image below:  

 Figure 2 The program lifecycle

The Money that Matters program

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