Agility and Discipline Made Easy: Practices from OpenUP and RUP

Per Kroll, Bruce MacIsaac9780321321305, 0321321308

In Agility and Discipline Made Easy, Rational Unified Process (RUP) and Open Unified Process (OpenUP) experts Per Kroll and Bruce MacIsaac share twenty well-defined best practices that you and your team can start adopting today to improve the agility, predictability, speed, and cost of software development.Kroll and MacIsaac outline proven principles for software development, and supply a number of supporting practices for each. You’ll learn what problems each practice addresses and how you can best leverage RUP and OpenUP (an open-source version of the Unified Process) to make the practice work for you. You’ll find proactive, prescriptive guidance on how to adopt the practices with minimal risk and implement as much or as little of RUP or OpenUP as you want.Learn how to apply sample practices from the Unified Process so you canExecute your project in iterationsEmbrace and manage changeTest your own codeDescribe requirements from the user perspectiveArchitect with components and servicesModel key perspectivesWhether you are interested in agile or disciplined development using RUP, OpenUP, or other agile processes, this book will help you reduce the anxiety and cost associated with software improvement by providing an easy, non-intrusive path toward improved results – without overwhelming you and your team.