A Practical Guide to Seven Agile Methodologies, Part 2
You know that adopting an Agile methodology is the right thing to do, but trying to sort out all the different methodologies is a major research endeavor. How to know which one is right for your organization? In this two-part article, you'll learn all the ins and outs of the seven most popular methodologies so you can pick the one that's best for you. In part 2, we cover AUP, Crystal, and DSDM.
by Rod Coffin,
Derek Lane
October 17, 2006
his is the second in a two-part series that surveys Agile methods and helps readers decide which combination is the most appropriate for their projects. The first part introduced Agile and summarized Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Feature Driven Development (FDD). This part will look at the Agile Unified Process (AUP), Crystal, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) before providing a comparison of all seven methodologies. (In case you missed it, be sure to read part 1.)
Agile Unified Process
The Unified Process (UP) is an iterative and incremental software development process framework. It is often considered a higher ceremony process because it specifies many activities and artifacts involved in a software project. As a process framework there are several adaptations, the most popular being the Rational Unified Process (RUP) from IBM. The Agile Unified Process (AUP) is an Agile adaptation of the UP formalized by Scott Ambler and written about by others including Craig Larman. Ambler succinctly summarizes AUP as "serial in the large, iterative in the small, [and] delivering incremental releases over time."
Figure 1. Phases and Disciplines of the Unified Process. AUP is an implementation of the Unified Process which tailors it by selecting only seven disciplines (model, implementation, test, deployment, configuration management, project management, and environments). Image courtesy of IBM.
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his is the second in a two-part series that surveys Agile methods and helps readers decide which combination is the most appropriate for their projects. The first part introduced Agile and summarized Extreme Programming (XP), Scrum, Lean, and Feature Driven Development (FDD). This part will look at the Agile Unified Process (AUP), Crystal, and Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) before providing a comparison of all seven methodologies. (In case you missed it, be sure to read 
