A comparison of rup® and xp
John Smith
Rational Software White Paper TP167, 5/01
Table of Contents
Introduction........................................................................................................................................................................... 1 Time and Effort Allocation.................................................................................................................................................... 1 Examples of projects amenable to XP ............................................................................................................................... 2 A large system development not suitable for XP .............................................................................................................. 3 What do RUP’s phases map to in XP? .............................................................................................................................. 4 What do XP’s phases map to in RUP? .............................................................................................................................. 6 XP phases.......................................................................................................................................................................... 6 XP lifecycle....................................................................................................................................................................... 6 Default RUP lifecycle ....................................................................................................................................................... 7 Actual RUP lifecycle......................................................................................................................................................... 8