Developing a user information architecture for Rational's ClearCase product family documentation set

  • Authors:
  • Mary Hunter Utt;Robert Mathews

  • Affiliations:
  • Rational Software Corp., Lexington, MA;Rational Software Corp., Lexington, MA

  • Venue:
  • SIGDOC '99 Proceedings of the 17th annual international conference on Computer documentation
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

Information architecture, like information development and delivery, has much in common with its software counterpart. This paper describes how the Rational ClearCase® documentation group developed an information architecture to meet changing industry, corporate, and product requirements. During this work, it became clear that our architecture development process mapped closely to the Rational Unified Process, an iterative and incremental approach to software architecture and development. The common features are noted and extensions are proposed to enhance both user-information processes and the Rational Unified Process.