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

Chapter 4 The RUP for a Team of One: Project Deimos

We’ve talked about where different RUP configurations can fit on the process map. But how do you implement the RUP? Before we delve into detailed explanations of the RUP’s phases and how to do iterative development, let’s go through the simplest implementation possible—the RUP for a team of one: Project Deimos. This example will give you a basic idea of how to use the process and its underlying principles and will give you a feel for iterative development.

For some, the phrase “software engineering process” evokes an image of a huge set of dusty binders full of policies, directives, and forms, all saturated with administrative jargon. But these are materials that would probably be used ...