Recommended Readings

• An excellent introduction is The Rational Unified Process Made Easy by Per Kroll and Philippe Kruchten.

• Another very readable introduction to the RUP is The Rational Unified Process An Introduction by Philippe Kruchten, its lead architect.

• Applying UML and Patterns: An Introduction to OOA/D and the Unified Process [Larman01] takes a case-study approach to introducing the UP and OOA/D. The concepts and workproducts are introduced incrementally over a series of case-study iterations.

• As a caution, there are a number of so-called UP and RUP texts that give incorrect descriptions.

Worthwhile readings that influenced the UP creators:

• "A Spiral Model of Software Development and Enhancement" by Barry Boehm, ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, August 1986 (the reprint in IEEE Computer, May 1988 is often cited). A widely cited paper that describes the spiral model of iterative and risk-driven development.

• Tom Gilb's iterative Evo method, described in Principles of Software Engineering Management, 1988.

• Grady Booch's Object Solutions Managing the OO Project, 1995.

• "Anchoring the Software Process" by Barry Boehm, IEEE Software, July 1996. Describes the milestones from which the inception, elaboration, and construction phases were inspired.

• The PMBOK (www.pmi.org). Some of the Project Management discipline was influenced by the PMBOK.