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Agility and Discipline Made Easy: Practices from OpenUP and RUP Review by Lynn Sheen
Highly recommended reading
Must reading for anyone responsible for successfully delivering development projects of any size.
Based on six key development principles, this book provides 20 proven concrete practices, derived from thousands of engagements. Flexibility is a key concept of the book. You can choose one or all of the practices to adopt for your organization. Picking those practices which best fit into your current process and most needed by you, makes it easy to begin realizing benefits today.
The advice given for each practice is practical, concise and reflects the authors' obvious depth of experience in the trenches. Three different levels of adoption are provided for each practice, enabling you to bite off just enough, but not too much, to swallow. The book emphasizes effectiveness, clearly describing why the practice is effective and tying the practice back to its core principle.
This book incorporates useful ideas from all the popular processes and successfully blends them together into what is described as the Unified Process. Basically, this book makes process improvements accessible to everyone. It enables you to make incremental changes, in an iterative manner, to effectively manage the transition to a better development process for your particular organization.
The software development industry has been waiting for a process which ties together the collective process knowledge acquired by the industry throughout the years. This book is a fundamental reflection of the process community which is currently evolving. Buy it, read it and become a part of the growing community around software development processes. You are likely to find it a very enjoyable and rewarding experience.