What are IconProcess Plug-ins?

The process for building a web application often involves more risk and complexity than traditional software development. This is the reason leading software development teams turn to IconATG and our IconProcess Plug-ins for guidance.

IconProcess Plug-ins enable your team to easily draw on best practices and established formulas of web development processes, integrating with the Unified Process, agile methods, or your own proprietary process. The result? You and your team will be able to build strategic, usable web applications as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Get The Practical Guidance You Need to Succeed

Successful web development projects must incorporate and integrate with a variety of activities that reside outside of more conventional software development processes, most dramatically within the disciplines of business strategy and user experience. IconProcess Plug-ins provide the frameworks you need to broaden your current development processes to incorporate these disciplines. Moreover, IconProcess Plug-ins define proven workflows, roles and staffing recommendations, task and artifact descriptions, and re-usable templates for numerous aspects of web development.

IconProcess Plug-ins enable you to easily access the critical knowledge and experience of scores of web development experts. Each IconProcess Plug-in has been created with insight from IconATG web development teams working on highly complex, real-world projects; advice from Rational Software Corporation's renowned Dr. Ivar Jacobson, and feedback from software practitioners from around the world.

In short, utilizing IconProcess Plug-ins will ensure that your web project launches on-time, on-budget and meets or exceeds all of your business and user needs.

Choose the Process Extension That Is Right for You

IconProcess Plug-ins are explicitly designed and packaged to allow you to meet your projects' specific objectives. Each IconProcess Plug-in defines proven workflows, roles and staffing recommendations, activity and artifact descriptions, and templates associated with that aspect of web development: And our Extension Packages contain multiple, related Extensions, thereby enabling you to reap the full benefit of web development process best practices within a given discipline.

e-Business Strategy Package:
Ensure the business value of your software development effort by seamlessly integrating business strategy activities and output into your development approach. The e-Business Strategy Package includes:

  • Enterprise Analysis Extension
  • Marketing Extension
  • Branding Extension

Web-enabled User-Centered Design Package:
Build highly usable websites and applications by broadening the scope of your current process. The Web-enabled User-Centered Design Package includes:

  • User Research Extension
  • Information Architecture Extension
  • Content Extension
  • Creative Design Extension
  • Usability Testing Extension