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Dewey Decimal Number: 005.1 EAN: 9780321199508 ISBN: 0321199502 Label: Addison-Wesley Professional Manufacturer: Addison-Wesley Professional Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: December 19, 2003 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Studio: Addison-Wesley Professional Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: Many in the extreme and agile communities have long held the RationalUnified Process as being an antithesis approach to program development -citing it as being too process oriented, too rigid and structured, and overlyconcerned with documentation. This book is Rational's reaction to thatinaccurate perception. Using a project case study that is carried throughout thebook, the authors illustrate how agile techniques can be used effectively in aRUP environment. While not taking the extreme or agile communities to taskfor their expressed disdain for process, this book shows that process caneffectively accommodate design and development approaches which are notusually associated with the RUP. Software Engineering for Small Projectssuccessfully extends the appeal of the Rational Unified Process. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Good advice, but only if you are selectiveThis book is a case study of a completed software development project done by a small, distributed team. What is unique about it is that the members of the team were all employed in full-time positions at different places doing other things. In that respect, their experiences are not those of the usual development team, but are more comparable to an open source project. However, since open source projects are largely driven by the passion and dedication of the project members, there are some significant ... Read More Rating: - Good BuyThis is what I call a "nightstand book". It's very readable and won't overload your gray brain cells while still stimulating you to analyze your conceptions of the real world you're faced with at work. It's a story about a voluntary software project implemented by the authors on their free time and provides a nice overview of how RUP can be applied to a small project, mixed in with certain ingredients from agile processes such as XP. The focus of the book is to document what decisions and obstacles ... Read More 
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