Whitepaper: The COTS Development Roadmap
This paper presents the detailed roadmap of the COTS (Commercial-Off-The-Shelf) development plug-in. The roadmap walks through each RUP phase of a COTS-based project.
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By Cecile Peraire and Russell Pannone, "The IBM Rational Unified Process for COTS Package Delivery Roadmap", Version 2.0, December 2005.

Abstract

The IBM Rational Unified Process (RUP) is a configurable process framework widely used for all types of software projects. This paper presents a configuration of RUP dedicated to projects aiming at evaluating, recommending, acquiring, installing, configuring, fielding and evolving Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) package solutions. This RUP configuration is based on the CMU/SEI Evolutionary Process for Integrating COTS-Based Systems (EPIC) methodology.