Agility and Order: Best Practices for RUP

Author: Per Kroll et al.
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: In this book, Per Kroll, an expert in the Rational Unified Process (RUP) and OpenUP, collaborates with Brucee Macisaac. Together, they 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 extensive 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 the Unified Process) to utilize these practices effectively. You will find proactive, descriptive guidance on how to adopt practices with minimal risk and implement either RUP or OpenUP in varying amounts according to your needs. The book covers topics such as leveraging key development principles, iterating to demonstrate value, maintaining continuous focus on quality, balancing stakeholder priorities, fostering collaboration among teams, raising abstraction levels, tailoring processes, and applying best practices in real-world scenarios.