--Originally published at Newbie Programmer
The Unified Software Process is an iterative process framework that can be suitable for many types of projects , this have some characteristics that defines this framework for example is an Iterative and incremental development framework that allow us to test, design and implement the product before its finished not like the waterfall model that you only can do one thing at time, second, is architecture centric that supports multiple architectural models and views and its risk focused, this means that we need to solve first the critical or greatest risks in the elaboration phase. To do the Unified Software Process we need to do four phases: Inception, Elaboration, Construction and Transitive.
Inception
In this phase it’s like understanding the project, because we need to establish what are supposed to do and the goals for the project, for this we can use a list of requirements and use cases, it’s important to have a schedule of time and the cost estimation for achieving the goals.
Elaboration
In this phase is where we do the risk focused part, where we need to know the critical problems and solve them first based in the requirements that we have, and it’s important to choose the architecture we are going to use considering that is useful for the project, that is good in terms of value, functionality and scalability, and to do an schedule for the Construction Phase.
Construction
This phase is where we begin with doing code and building the use cases diagram or class diagram and the implementation of each of the parts together to make sure the program its working well with making tests or changing aspects of the elaboration phase, because it’s an iterative process we can go back and solve the problem or to add things to make the
Transition
This is where the product is finished, and we deliver it to the client or a specific public, but before making the final version we can make initial releases and to wait for the customers feedback that help us to improve the product to make it stronger, with more functions or scalable for other things in the future.
