Agility and Order: RUP Best Practices

Author: Per Kroll, Bruce Macisaac
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Features: In this book, Per Kroll and Bruce Macisaac, experts in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and OpenUP, use 20 well-defined best practices that you and your team can now adopt to improve the agility, predictability, speed, and cost of software development. Kroll and Macisaac outline recognized software development principles and provide numerous supporting practices for each. You will learn the problems each practice addresses and how to fully leverage RUP and OpenUP (an open-source version of RUP) to benefit from these practices. You will find proactive, descriptive guidance on how to adopt practices with lower risk and implement large or small amounts of RUP or OpenUP as needed.
In Agile and Rigorous Development Made Easy, Per Kroll and Bruce Maclsaac, experts in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and OpenUP, use 20 well-defined best practices that you and your team can now adopt to improve the agility, predictability, speed, and cost of software development. Kroll and Maclsaac outline recognized software development principles and provide numerous supporting practices for each. You will learn the problems each practice addresses and how to fully leverage RUP and OpenUP (an open-source version of RUP) to benefit from these practices. You will find proactive, descriptive guidance on how to adopt practices with lower risk and implement large or small amounts of RUP or OpenUP as needed.
Learn how to apply template practices from the unified process so you can:
- Execute your project in iterations
- Embrace and manage changes
- Test your code
- Describe requirements from a user's perspective
- Architect using components and services
- Model key concepts
Whether you are interested in agile or rigorous development using RUP, OpenUP, or other agile processes, this book provides a simple, straightforward path to improved results, helping you reduce anxiety and costs associated with software improvement without imposing pressure on you and your team.