This book is first in a four-volume series that presents a critical review of the Unified Process -- designed to present a more robust software process that addresses your development and production needs. The series provides a balanced perspective of the alternative design methodologies available, proposes a synthesized software process that addresses the scope of your real world, and presents materials from the Software Development magazine that will flesh out each of the UP phases. In this series you get the collective wisdom of industry luminaries such as Karl Wiegers, Jim Highsmith, Ellen Gottessdiener, Lucy Lockwood, Warren Keuffel, Larry Constantine, and myself (Scott Ambler). The Inception phase is the first of six phases -- Inception, Elaboration, Construction, Transition, Production , and Retirement -- that a system experiences throughout its complete lifecycle. This phase has several goals:
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