Overview

Features & Benefits

• Capture and extend method content
  • Discipline
  • Roles
  • Tasks
  • Work Products
  • Guidance
• Describe process patterns
• Configure processes
• Publish process content
• Manage process assets
• Extend base processes
• Tailor process to organization- and domain-specific needs
• Accompanied by Open Unified Process (OpenUP) process library
• Provide forum for industry process investments to converge
  • UP, Agile, DSDM
  • MDA, TOGAF
• Provide foundation for reusing, sharing, integrating, and tailoring various process assets
• Open source

Description

EPF Composer uses a forms-based approach to defining method content (such as roles, tasks, and work products) in an Eclipse IDE. Method content is then configured into process patterns using various breakdown structures and activity models. The process patterns are in turn assembled into complete processes. Processes can then be published as a website.

Method content is comprised of:

• Roles, tasks, work products
• Disciplines, domains
• Guidance (checklists, templates, examples, guidelines, etc)

Processes are configurations of method content arranged by:

• Phases, iterations, activities
• Milestones, team profiles
• Guidance (checklists, templates, examples, guidelines, etc)

EPF Composer is accompanied by OpenUP, a base process for small, co-located development teams that can be extended and customized to each organization’s needs.

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Download

You can download the current version of EPF Composer from the Eclipse website. Users can also separately download the published OpenUP website, which is included with EPF Composer. Use is subject to the Eclipse Public License.

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