The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP

Chapter 3 Comparing Processes: The RUP, Agile Methods, and Heavyweight Government Standards

In this chapter, you’ll get a better understanding of how you should apply the Rational Unified Process. We’ll discuss characteristics and differences between the RUP approach and

•     Other agile approaches such as Extreme Programming (XP),¹ Scrum,² Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM),³ Crystal,⁴ and Adaptive Development.⁵

•     Process assessment frameworks such as the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) Capability Maturity Models (SEI CMM and SEI CMMI) and ISO/IEC 15504.

•     More heavyweight development approaches often linked to standards such as DOD-STD-2167a and MIL-STD-498.

These processes and process assessment frameworks are compared ...