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Agile Software Development and Business Analysis

Submitted by ScottWAmbler on Fri, 2006-10-20 12:22 Follow ScottWAmbler on

By:  Scott W. Ambler

In this article Scott W. Ambler, Practice Leader Agile Development in the IBM methods group, overviews agile software development and the implications for business analysts.

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RUP not BRU

Submitted by kmatthews on Tue, 2006-11-07 19:19. *

I'll let Scott answer your question to him.

I would however like to point out that RUP has NOT 'over-emphasized on "big requirements upfront" (BRU)as a requirements development approach' which would be very much a waterfall approach and anti-RUP.

RUP is a customizeable methodology and while it is possible to use a BRU waterfall approach as one a life-cycle model it is very much NOT recommended by RUP.

I have assisted several large organizations in the adoption of RUP and always professed an agile AUP approach with success.

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