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Effective communication among application development project stakeholders is often challenging, especially when the team is geographically distributed or time constrained. IBM® Rational® software helps organizations automate, integrate, and govern the core business process of software and systems delivery via the IBM Rational Software Delivery Platform. At the platform's core is the IBM Rational Unified Process® (RUP®), a flexible framework for establishing an iterative business process for software and systems delivery. Based on more than two decades of harvested best practices, RUP helps to reduce the risk of project failure and promotes consistency, predictability, productivity, and efficiency across the organization.

The RUP Business Modeling discipline provides tools and notations for business use cases which facilitate effective stakeholder communication and validation with domain experts. It allows business analysts to use the same notation and tools to document business processes that software architects and designers use to document software solutions. This allows the two groups to communicate better, ensuring that software systems really meet business needs.

Read how business use cases can serve as the basis for validating requirements during the software development process.