How is Agile different from RUP?
Each has development and release in an iterative process. Unlike waterfall, both can have late inclusion of requirements. I had fun with this one. I should probably say that while I have plenty of “book” knowledge about RUP, I’ve never used it in anger. I’ve spoken to many people that very happily transitioned from RUP to XP or Scrum and refused to ever go back. I did try to champion a conversion to RUP at a former employer before running away to join the XP circus. This is a partial repeat of an earlier post, but who cares? Subject RUP XP/Scrum Are they Iterative? RUP is supposed to be iterative and the founders of RUP will turn their faces blue saying this. The problem for me is that RUP still includes a lot of waterfall mentality baggage in the form of project phases. The iterations are much longer and seem to really amount to mini-waterfall projects in their own right. The typical RUP iteration lengths I’ve heard ranged from 6 weeks to a couple months Extreme Programming uses 1 to
