The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction, Third Edition

UML Distilled: A Brief Guide to the Standard Object Modeling Language, Third Edition

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

Format: Paperback
Author: Per Kroll
ReleaseDate: 08 April, 2003
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Rating:

You need this book if you're doing RUP
The book may seem repetitive on a few points, but I feel the points bear repeating. This book does a great job of showing steps of practical application of the RUP. This book has been invaluable in helping cut through the misinformation thrown around by some who have gotten the executive summary of RUP and know just enough to be dangerous. I recently completed a seven-part online course on the RUP that was based on this book. The book did a far better job of making the RUP understandable.

The best way to understand RUP


This book is the best way for a student to understand RUP after a few lessons with a teacher. I teach RUP classes in Brazil and the most difficult thing for the students is to understand the core practices of RUP(what I like to call Agile RUP) without getting swallowed by all the details of the hundreds activities, artifacts, roles, guidelines, etc. It's very practical and focused on the core practices of RUP.

Read this book and you probably will not fall in the trap of using RUP in a waterfall way or think of RUP as a heavyweight process :-) !! .

Interesting, but highly repetitive

Actually, that was only one of the many 'standard phrases' in this book. The book was interesting to a RUP novice, but I wish I got a dime for each time that this book emphasized that some projects need more artifacts (high ceremony), and other need less (low ceremony). If removed or replaced by an abbreviation, I bet the book would be about 30% smaller, less distracting and therefore a lot more interesting.