Ultramatics assists your organization and/or project to successfully apply Rational Unified Process project management and requirements disciplines using IBM/Rational brand products including

	IBM Rational Unified Process
	IBM Rational Portfolio Manager
	IBM Rational ProjectConsole Client
	IBM Rational SUMMIT Ascendant
	IBM Rational RequisitePro
	IBM Rational Team Unifying Platform (including IBM Rational ProjectConsole)
	SoDA

The diverse set of activities includes

	Creating a development case that maps the Rational Unified Process for your organization
	Developing project plans that identify iteration process
	Preparing requirements management plans using Rational RequisitePro
	Plan and encapsulate requirements using use cases, defining project metrics to be captured in Project Console

Service Overview

ULTRASTART™/RPPM program offering provides a packaged set of consulting services to quickly implement a fundamental Rational Process and Project Management environment. UltraStart™ solutions in this area are primarily aimed at helping our customers successfully evolve towards modern project development approaches supported by the Rational Unified Process or its best practices. It is delivered by our Certified Rational consultants – all of who have an extensive background in Rational Software Development Process to solve your unique problems. Combining depth of industry expertise with leading-edge functional approaches, we are uniquely qualified to help you easily and effectively implement your Rational solution roadmap infrastructure. Our consultants are knowledgeable in all aspects of complex enterprise architectures, planning, installation, configuration, administration, tuning and performance, programming, and integration.

ULTRASTART™ /RPPM Basics

During this 2 weeks service engagement, Ultramatics Rational Certified professionals will:
	Install and customize IBM/Rational brand products including Rational Portfolio Manager, Project Console, Rational RequisitePro, and Rational ClearQuest on one hardware platforms of your choice with sufficient detail to enable you to test these tools in your environment.
	Discuss administration and operational aspects of your environment with operations personnel including RPPM tool tips & techniques.
	Provide you with a detailed report that documents your custom installation environment and parameters, security and future deployment consideration, "best practice" naming convention guidelines for use with RPPM tools and value added Rational products available in the marketplace.
	Provide you with a skills assessment overview in a matrix format so you can tactically plan and budget for RPPM tools training/resource requirements.

ULTRASTART™ /RPPM Advanced

During this 3-4 weeks service engagement, Ultramatics Rational Certified professionals will perform everything provided in the UltraStart™/RPPM Basics as well as:
	Install RPPM tools on one additional platform.
	Review your Enterprise Process and Project Management architecture and topology and document enterprise Rational Process and Project Management tools implementation and integration considerations.
	Provides a one -day Rational Process and Project Management overview training class that addresses the fundamentals of RPPM including:   - Overview, Concepts and Architecture. - Planning and Customization. - Sample Applications. - Future plans and considerations.

Additional Information

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