Week 10 RUP and XP

http://www.objectmentor.com/resources/articles/RUPvsXP.pdf

Needs of the developer and customer

We have mentioned a lot what do the software engineers need to figure out what to do and what do not do under the Rational Unified Process, so we may think about what the NEEDS of the developer and the needs of the clients.

When comparing with the Extreme Programming, RUP provide more guidelines for a group of developer to build software in a disciplined, elegant and productive way in the limited time. Although XP is fast and fewer set of rules to follow, it is difficult to follow when developers are going to build a reliable and systematic, real-time, bug-free software.

In person, I would prefer XP since less documentations and rules means developers have more room to focus on the project coding, not in the planning stage. A workable software still better than a good written documentation but fairly acceptable software.