In RUP, we have an enormous amount of advice depending on the type of project you're doing.

It will take the model and transform it into code and do so in a way that you have patterns for doing so that you can rely on. So if it's in the design, it's in the code.

Project and portfolio management is critical as development is increasingly distributed, as organizations adopt service oriented architectures, and as audits require evidence of regulatory compliance. With IBM's new project and portfolio management software, organizations can more effectively govern their software and systems development projects.

We started using the product a couple of years ago ourselves because we didn't have anything like it. This will be our build management and automation capability going forward.

When we'd have arguments over who has the best basic process for development, nobody wins. Rather than controlling the basic process framework, we (at IBM) can leverage what the open-source community does. And other software vendors can do the same around our processes.