Common Mechanisms of UML

Software Development Life Cycle 

Life Cycle 

The life cycle has four phases: 

Inception: Define the scope of project  Elaboration: Plan project, base line requirements and architecture  Construction: Build the product  Transition: Deliver the product to end user

• In order to get maximum benefit from UML, the development process should be: 

Use-case driven  Architecture-centric  Iterative and Incremental

• The iterative and incremental process helps to effectively manage the continuous change, integration/delivery and the risks 
• Iterations are planned so as to produce stable, usable/testable and progressively elaborated subsystem in each iteration 
• In early iterations, technology risks (such as new technology, tools etc.) are attacked and the most critical functionality is developed