R: great article on agile/waterfall re rup

Alan,

some time ago, I posted a reference to this article to the RUP-Forum, asking
about why it was not published on Rational or Valtech websites.

Some Rational people answered they use it internally as a list of "process
antipatterns".

Philippe Krutchen said (I quote from his email):

"And since we speak about this paper (How to fail with the RUP), for various
reasons
[...], mostly because of the possible misinterpretations and malicious
misuses of what was initially thought as a "tongue in cheek" paper, we have
not released it,
and I still wonder how this draft ended up on this web site. "

Anyway, on Rational restricted access website (www.rational.net) has been
recently posted another interesting article about the same topics. It is by
Black Diamond Software (a Rational Partner company), and you can find it
(look under "white papers") at www.bds.com . They ask for your email to
download it.

Adriano Comai
www.analisi-disegno.com

> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: Alan Shalloway <alshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> [mailto:alshall@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Inviato: sabato 14 dicembre 2002 20.22
> A: scrumdevelopment@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Oggetto: [scrumdevelopment] great article on agile/waterfall re rup
>
>
> The title alone (How to Fail with the Rational Unified Process:
> Seven Steps to Pain and Suffering by Larman, Kruchten and Bittner)
> make this article worth reading ;)  See
> http://www.dcs.bbk.ac.uk/~cc/courses/isad/articles/larman01howto.pdf
>
> However, on page 2 (Figure 1) there is a "Changing Requirements Are
> the Norm" graph which shows the bigger the project, the more the
> requirements change as a % of the original.  This is precisely the
> point made earlier about why very large up-front requirements are
> virtually never that useful.  If you really need them because the
> project is big, by the time you get to using them they are out of
> date.  Nice to have some documentation about this.
>
> Great article - worth reading and recommending IMHO.
>
> Alan Shalloway
> CEO, Net Objectives
> www.netobjectives.com
>
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