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The Unified Process Elaboration Phase: Best Practices in Implementing the UP

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I found this book very useful. Scott ulls together a body of writings that are insightful and serve to fill in many of the holes in the UP. His commentary ties ties the articles together in such a way that the concepts are readily applicable to just about any development metodology. This book helped me to provide the necessary explanation and focus to a project team that was about to lose its way. I highly recommend it.

The guy from Toronto got it right. This is a great book that collects really good articles written by some of my favorite writers. I first read the Construction Phase book then quickly bought this book and the Inception phase book and have found all three to be valuable. My company is trying to implement the RUP right now and struggled because there was clearly some missing techniques. This book series presents a lot of what is missing in the RUP, and it really helped us to fill in a lot of the missing stuff. Too bad Ambler and Constantine don't work for Rational.

People attempting to apply the Unified Process definitely need help, and Ambler has done a fine job providing some. As a Rational certified instructor, author of two books on process patterns, and someone who really applies the UP, he's well qualified to assist others. The articles he has pulled together help cover some of the missing information on the UP and his commentaries unite everything into a useful whole. I recommend this book totally. [One complaint - the editor/publisher really dropped the ball on some of the illustations, but buy the book anyway.]

This is a really great book. It goes into detail about an improved version of the lifecycle for the Unified Process, one that actually addresses the real world needs of most companies. Trying to use the RUP on multiple projects? Trying to have a common architecture between them? Worried about integrating with your legacy systems? This book covers these topics and more with some of the best articles ever published in Software Development magazine. I'm really into some of the philosophies of XP and as a result really liked the chapter on testing which presents a wide range of testing techniques and strategies. The A&D chapter included a really great article about distributed object design by Scott Ambler and one about Java interface design by Peter Coad, two topics critical for EJB development IMHO. The business modeling chapter was excellent, covering essential modeling, business rules, and a great UML article by Martin Fowler. It's amazing how this book collects some of the best material written by the best minds in the computer industry.

Personally, I can't imagine anyone adopting the RUP without first reading this book series. I think it's great that someone has gone to the effort to sort through the best articles written by some of the best minds in this industry. Kudos to Ambler and Constantine for having the courage to stand up and say what many others have been afraid to.

This is a great book! In the past, I have found Scott Ambler's books to be insightful by being able to poke a little fun at the "establishment" while steering us back on to the path toward the good and virtuous. Scott reinforces his points with selected works from others. Well worth the time to read.

I haven't read a bad book yet, and this is another good one. The reason I haven't read a bad book is because I read all of the reviews on Amazon.com and then go to a bookstore to get a feel for the book before finally buying it from Amazon.com. This screening process I perform allows me to always choose a book worth my time reading. The Unified Process Elaboration Phase, like all ther other books I've read, is a really good book. The author Scott Ambler provides great introductions to each chapter about the Software Development magazine articles that follow in each chapter that he appropriatley selects as relevant to the current workflow discussed as pertaining to the Unified Process. Scott Ambler is a seasoned software engineer with many real world analogies, experiences and examples to share and is an effective writer, as are all the authors of the articles contained in this book.

It would take years reading a good software engineering magazines' articles and filtering out the relevant ones to particular topics to get the same knowledge this book provides. Scott obviously knows what he's talking about in his leads into the articles.

Be forewarned. This book expresses very little original thought and is merely a collection of "other peoples" articles. This provides for very little logical flow for someone wanting to apply RUP. Where are the examples, tips of the trade, and how-to's?

Shame on me for not having gone to the book store first to look at the book as the online description gives no indication that it was in a periodical format.

I expected more from Scott after having read is other great "original thought" books.