Philippe Kruchten Libri

"Per Kroll and Philippe Kruchten are especially well suited to explain the RUP...because they have been the central forces inside Rational Software behind the creation of the RUP and its delivery to projects around the world." --From the Foreword by Grady Booch This book is a comprehensive guide to modern software development practices, as embodied in the Rational Unified Process, or RUP. With the help of this book's practical advice and insight, software practitioners will learn how to tackle challenging development projects--small and large--using an iterative and risk-driven development approach with a proven track record. The Rational Unified Process Made Easy will teach you the key points involved in planning and managing iterative projects, the fundamentals of component design and software architecture, and the proper employment of use cases. All team members--from project managers to analysts, from developers to testers--will learn how to immediately apply the RUP to their work. You will learn that the RUP is a flexible, versatile process framework that can be tailored to suit the needs of development projects of all types and sizes. Key topics covered Use this book to get quickly up to speed with the RUP, so you can easily employ the significant power of this process to increase the productivity of your team.

This book is a brief introduction to the Rational Unified Process. This new software development process is derived primarily from the three market-leading object-oriented analysis and design methods: Booch, OOSE (Use-Case), and OMT. It represents a collaboration and extension of the three leading object-oriented methodologists, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh. In an attempt to standardize the process of analysis and design, these three leading methodologists have merged and refined their popular methods while incorporating successful ideas drawn from many other time-tested methods. The end result is the truly groundbreaking Rational Unified Process: a software development process, delivered through a web-enabled, searchable knowledge base that enhances team productivity and delivers software best practices via guidelines, templates, and tool mentors for all critical software lifecycle activities.