• Objectives
• Activities
• Deliverables

Construction phase

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

Objectives

• Minimize development costs by optimizing resources and avoiding unnecessary scrap and rework.
• Achieving adequate quality as rapidly as practical.
• Achieving useful versions as rapidly as practical.

Activities

• Resource management, resource control, process optimization.
• Complete component development and testing.
• Assessment of product releases against acceptance criteria.

Deliverables

• The software product integrated on the adequate platforms.
• User manuals.
• A description of the current release.