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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Kroll, Per.
  Agility and discipline made easy : practices from OpenUP and RUP / Per Kroll, Bruce MacIsaac.
    p. cm.
  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  ISBN 0-321-32130-8 (pbk. : alk. paper)

1. Computer softwareDevelopment. 2. Software engineering. I. MacIsaac, Bruce. II. Title.

  QA76.76.D47K746 2006
  005.1dc22
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