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An obvious way to make RUP more in line with Agile methodologies is to
restrict the required work products, eliminate or merge some of the roles,
and add more customer involvement through the iterations. RUP can also
be modified by adding one more level of iterations, repeating all the phases
for each iteration. Of course, the devil is in the details. What exactly are we
to eliminate from RUP to make it more Agile?
A number of people are actively working on how to combine the best char-
acteristics of RUP and Agile projects, either by making RUP Agile or by
adding RUP characteristics to Agile processes. IBM Rational ...