Now is the time to come to speed on best practices for Agile Unified Process, and this book provides a good starting point. " - Scott W. Ambler, practice leader, Agile Modeling "IBM and the global economy has become increasingly dependent on software over the past decade, and our industry has developed several best practices discriminatory. These ideas are progressive, but they strike the right balance between agility and governance and will form the basis for a successful system and software developer for a long time. " - IBM Services Walker Royce, Vice President, Software-Rational "Finally, the RUP is presented in digestible, byte size pieces of the team. Kroll and MacIsaac effectively describe a set of practices that can be adopted in low-ceremony, ad hoc fashion, suited to the culture of the project more agile, while enabling them to understand how to scale their processes as needed. " - Dean Leffingwell, author and software business advisor and executive "This text fills an important gap in the base-knowledge of our industry: a proven agile in the practice of scalable framework, Unified. The process provides With each exercise to strangle with the unique context of a development organization, Kroll and MacIsaac provides software teams with the ability to balance agility and discipline appropriate for their specific needs. " - Brian G. Lyons, CTO, Number Six Software, Inc. 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 the principles that have been proven for software development, and supply a number of supporting practices for each. You will learn what exercises every address and how you can leverage RUP and OpenUP (an open-source version of the Unified Process) to create a work for your practice. Learn how to apply sample practices from the Unified Process so you can Run your project in iterations Embrace and manage change alone code Explain the test requirements from the user perspective Architect with components and services, key model perspective Are you interested in agile or disciplined development using RUP, OpenUP, or other agile processes, this book will help you reduce anxiety and cost associated with software improvement by providing a path, it is easy not to interfere to better results - without exaggeration you and your team.