Rational Rose Guide to Team Development

This guide, Rational Rose Guide to Team Development, is intended for those users who work in or support teams of modelers/developers. It provides background information about Rose and the tools that support working in teams, as well as guidelines for managing parallel development.

How This Manual Is Organized

This manual contains the following six chapters:

• Chapter 1—Introduction Provides an overview of the material covered in the guide.
  
• Chapter 2—Breaking a Model into Controlled Units Introduces controlled units and describes how they can be used to partition a model into manageable parts.
  
• Chapter 3—Comparing and Merging Models Describes how to use Model Integrator to compare and merge the work of multiple developers.
  
• Chapter 4—Working with a Version Control System Describes the fundamental concepts behind version control systems and provides details about Rose’s integration with ClearCase and Microsoft Visual SourceSafe.
  
• Chapter 5—Establishing a Model Architecture and Process for Team Development Provides guidelines for defining team roles and responsibilities and for developing a process for managing parallel development.
  
• Chapter 6—Parallel Development Sample Using ClearCase Documents a sample environment using ClearCase as the version control system.
  

Related Documentation

The information in this guide spans numerous products, both from Rational and from other software vendors. To learn more about these products, you should become familiar with their documentation. The Rational Rose Guide to Using Rose and the Rational Rose online help provide detailed information about Rose models and the Model Integrator.