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Agility and Discipline Made Easy Practices from OpenUP and RUP

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ISBN-10: 0321321308

ISBN-13: 9780321321305

Edition: 2006

Authors: Per Kroll, Bruce Macisaac

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Description:

The authors describe a set of 23 practices that can help you improve agility, predictability, speed, and cost of software development. This book shows you how to: attack major risks early so they don't attack you; ensure that you deliver value to your customer; stay focused on executable software; and build your system to enable change.
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Book details

List price: $54.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Publication date: 5/19/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 7.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.364
Language: English

Foreword
Preface
About the Authors
Leveraging Key Development Principles
Where Do the Practices Come From?
Using Practice Descriptions
Adopting the Practices: Iterative Development, Levels of Ceremony, and Agility
Key Development Principles
Unified Process Lifecycle
OpenUP/Basic
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
eXtreme Programming (XP)
Scrum
Summary
Demonstrate Value Iteratively
Manage Risk
Execute Your Project in Iterations
Embrace and Manage Change
Measure Progress Objectively
Focus Continuously on Quality
Test Your Own Code
Leverage Test Automation Appropriately
Everyone Owns the Product!
Balance Stakeholder Priorities
Understand the Domain
Describe Requirements from the User Perspective
Prioritize Requirements for Implementation
Leverage Legacy Systems
Collaborate Across Teams
Build High-Performance Teams
Organize Around the Architecture
Manage Versions
Elevate the Level of Abstraction
Leverage Patterns
Architect with Components and Services
Actively Promote Reuse
Model Key Perspectives
Adapt the Process
Rightsize Your Process
Continuously Reevaluate What You Do
Making Practical Use of the Best Practices
Which Practices Should I Adopt First?
Start with the Basics
Adopt Related Practices
How Can RUP and EPF Help Me?
Choosing the Right Pilot Project
Conclusions
The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF)
Why EPF?
What Is EPF?
Potential Users of EPF
Extensible Process Content
Software Process Engineering Metamodel
Extensible Process Engineering Tools
Participating in the Development of EPF
IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC)
Process for a Variety of Projects
Process for the Enterprise
How the Practitioner Uses RMC
How a Project Manager Uses RMC
How Process Managers Use RMC
Guiding Principles for Evolving IBM Rational Method Composer
Glossary
Bibliography
Index