RUP anyone?

"... the most well-known variant of the Unified Process has grown its knowledge base beyond manageable limits. We need to go back to basics, find the essence of the Unified Process and then start to grow from there."1

Where "the most well-know variant" == RUP. It's a devastating statement if you ask me, even more so given that the author is Ivar Jacobson. Some may say it's very cynical from his part to say this *after* he sold Rational to IBM, personally all I can say is that, in my LOB development practice in Ecuador and several other countries in my region, I have yet to see a consistent use of RUP that had lead to measurable (let alone, spectacular) increases in productivity. I may be wrong of course, so I would like to hear your opinions...

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  • I would say the comment has less to do with his selling of Rational to IBM and more to do with his work for Microsoft on the EUP for VSTS...

  • Kevin: I believe in Agile but not on Extreme, e.g. "the code is the documentation" sounds good, I wish it would be true, but it's just not like that. You're right: Agile is for small teams, as for the "non-critical", I'm not so sure, what do you call critical? I can tell we've done LOB apps with agile MSF (not the new VSTS variant but the old one). Most of all, I was trying to be hard on RUP, and (sincerely) asking for RUP success stories *from the trenches*, in this sense, saying that agile methodologies don't scale (probably truth) doesn't make RUP any better...

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