• Purpose
• Objectives
• Activities

Transition

The text ``The Rational Unified Process, An Introduction''[9], specifies the following purpose, objectives and activities from a transition phase.

Purpose

• Transition the software to the user community.
  • Beta testing.
  • Parallel operation with any existing legacy system.
  • Conversions of operational databases.
  • Training of users.
  • Product rollout.

Objectives

• Achieving user self-supportability.
• Achieving stakeholder buy-in that the deployed product is complete and consistent with the evaluation criteria of the vision.
• Achieving final product baseline as rapidly and cost-effectively as possible.

Activities

• Deployment-specific engineering:
  • Cutover
  • Commercial packaging and production
  • Sales rollout
  • Field personnel training
• Tuning activities, bug-fixing, and enhancement for performance and usability.
• Assessing the deployment baseline against the vision and acceptance criteria.