Editing Rational unified process (section)

=== RUP building blocks ===
RUP is based on a set of building blocks and content elements, describing what is to be produced, the necessary skills required and the step-by-step explanation describing how specific development goals are to be achieved. The main building blocks, or content elements, are the following:
* Roles (who) – A role defines a set of related skills, competencies and responsibilities.
* Work products (what) – A work product represents something resulting from a task, including all the documents and models produced while working through the process.
* Tasks (how) – A task describes a unit of work assigned to a Role that provides a meaningful result.

Within each iteration, the tasks are categorized into nine disciplines:
* Six "engineering disciplines"
** Business modelling
** Requirements
** Analysis and design
** Implementation
** Test
** Deployment
* Three supporting disciplines
** [[Software configuration management|Configuration and change management]]
** [[Software project management|Project management]]
** [[Environment discipline|Environment]]