Although there is significant focus on software development methodologies such as Scrum and XP, and better yet on solution delivery frameworks such as Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) , it is clear that there is more to information technology (IT) departments than development/delivery. What we really need is a full-fledged software process.

The Enterprise Unified Process^TM (EUP) is an extension to the solution delivery methodologies such as DAD, instantiations of the Unified Process (UP), or even home-grown delivery processes based on Scrum or other agile software methods.  Figure 1 depicts the EUP lifecycle. People familiar with DAD or UP can see that the extensions include two new phases, Production and Retirement, and several new disciplines:

• Operations and Support
• Enterprise Business Modeling
• Portfolio Management
• Enterprise Architecture
• Strategic Reuse
• People Management
• Enterprise Administration
• Software Process Improvement

Figure 1. The Lifecycle for the Enterprise Unified Process (EUP): 2013.

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