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Agility and Discipline Made Easy: Practices from OpenUP and RUP
By Per Kroll, Bruce MacIsaac
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Publisher: Addison Wesley Professional
Pub Date: May 19, 2006
Print ISBN-10: 0-321-32130-8
Print ISBN-13: 978-0-321-32130-5
Pages: 448

Table of Contents  | Index

		Copyright
		Praise for Agility and Discipline Made Easy
		The Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series
		Foreword
		Preface
		About the Authors
		Chapter 1.  Leveraging Key Development Principles
			Where Do the Practices Come From?
			Using Practice Descriptions
			Adopting the Practices: Iterative Development, Levels of Ceremony, and Agility
			Key Development Principles
			Unified Process Lifecycle
			OpenUP/Basic
			Rational Unified Process (RUP)
			eXtreme Programming (XP)
			Scrum
			Summary
		Chapter 2.  Demonstrate Value Iteratively
			Practice 1.  Manage Risk
			Practice 2.  Execute Your Project in Iterations
			Practice 3.  Embrace and Manage Change
			Practice 4.  Measure Progress Objectively
		Chapter 3.  Focus Continuously on Quality
			Practice 5.  Test Your Own Code
			Practice 6.  Leverage Test Automation Appropriately
			Practice 7.  Everyone Owns the Product!
		Chapter 4.  Balance Stakeholder Priorities
			Practice 8.  Understand the Domain
			Practice 9.  Describe Requirements from the User Perspective
			Practice 10.  Prioritize Requirements for Implementation
			Practice 11.  Leverage Legacy Systems
		Chapter 5.  Collaborate Across Teams
			Practice 12.  Build High-Performance Teams
			Practice 13.  Organize Around the Architecture
			Practice 14.  Manage Versions
		Chapter 6.  Elevate the Level of Abstraction
			Practice 15.  Leverage Patterns
			Practice 16.  Architect with Components and Services
			Practice 17.  Actively Promote Reuse
			Practice 18.  Model Key Perspectives
		Chapter 7.  Adapt the Process
			Practice 19.  Rightsize Your Process
			Practice 20.  Continuously Reevaluate What You Do
		Chapter 8.  Making Practical Use of the Best Practices
			Which Practices Should I Adopt First?
			Start with the Basics
			Adopt Related Practices
			Practices Supporting Iterative Development
			How Can RUP and EPF Help Me?
			Choosing the Right Pilot Project
			Conclusions
		Appendix A.  The Eclipse Process Framework (EPF)
			Why EPF?
			What Is EPF?
			Potential Users of EPF
			Extensible Process Content
			Software Process Engineering Metamodel
			Extensible Process Engineering Tools
			Participating in the Development of EPF
		Appendix B.  IBM Rational Method Composer (RMC)
			Process for a Variety of Projects
			Process for the Enterprise
			How the Practitioner Uses RMC
			How a Project Manager Uses RMC
			How Process Managers Use RMC
			Guiding Principles for Evolving IBM Rational Method Composer
		Glossary
		Bibliography
		Index