NEW CASTLE, DE   Sept 20th 2002   Today, The Information Architecture Group and Rational Software Corp. (NASDAQ:RATL) announced that IAG has joined the Rational Business Alliance Program as a Rational Business Partner. IAG now has certified RUP consultants on staff and available for Rational and IAG clients who need assistance in the implementation of the Rational Unified Process and related Rational Suite of tools for requirements management design and implementation.

"The Rational Unified Process and Rational’s software solutions are an important element of our overall service offering in requirements and business analysis," said Ross Little, Co-President, The Information Architecture Group. "The RUP and Rational's software development platform is an excellent fit with our Requirements Discovery Process and our clients should see it as a perfect enabler to our Best Requirements Practices."

Rational Software provides open, industry standard tools, best practices and services for developing business applications and building software products and systems. Rational’s integrated, full lifecycle solution combines software engineering best practices and market-leading tools to provide a software development platform that improves the speed, quality, and predictability of software projects.
Ninety-eight of the Fortune 100 rely on Rational tools and services to build better software, faster. This open platform is extended by partners like IAG who provide more than 500 complementary products and services.

The Information Architecture Group are experts in eliciting, organizing and documenting business system requirements. IAG specializes in gathering requirements quickly and easily using best practices consistent with the RUP to produce Vision documents, Use-Case Specifications, Software Requirement Specifications and other Requirements and Business Modeling artifacts. IAG’s certified RUP consultants can conduct Requirements and Use Case Workshops, model, document and produce all of your requirements artifacts for you.  Rational clients can also engage IAG to coach and mentor your staff in the techniques and best practices to elicit and write good requirements – and implement the RUP effectively.

The Information Architecture Group is known for their practical facilitation and documentation techniques and their Requirements Discovery Process – an agile requirements method that employs a structured Use-Case driven Requirements Workshop to discover, describe and document requirements quickly and easily.

• Writing Requirements artifacts like Vision Documents, Business and Software Requirements Specifications
• Facilitation of Requirements Workshops to elicit stakeholder requirements
• Use-Case Workshops, Business Modeling Workshops, Requirements Reviews
• Coaching and Mentoring in requirements gathering, analysis and modeling practices
• Integrating requirements elicitation soft skills and best practices with the RUP
• Mentoring and Training Programs
• Conducting assessments and preparing a development case for the implementation of the Requirements discipline of the RUP.
• Selecting, defining and implementing the activities, artifacts and templates

For more information about IAG’s software integration, implementation support and training workshops that are customized to support Rational and RUP clients, click here.