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A Comparison of the IBM Rational Unified Process and eXtreme Programming

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Overview This white paper compares the Rational Unified Process (RUP), a process framework, refined over the years by IBM Rational. The RUP is widely used on a variety of software projects, from small to large, with Extreme Programming (XP), a software development approach gaining increasing recognition as an effective method for building smaller systems in an environment of changing requirements.

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Publisher	IBM	File Format	PDF, requires Acrobat Rdr 5
Date Published	August 2003	Downloads	102
Format	White Papers
Topics	Software Engineering

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