The Essential Unified Process for software development, or EssUP, was invented by Ivar Jacobson as an improvement on the Rational Unified Process.
It identifies practices, such as use cases, iterative development, architecture driven development, team practices and process practices, which are borrowed from RUP, CMMI and agile development.
The idea is that you can pick those practices that are applicable to your situation and combine them into your own process. This is considered an improvement with respect to RUP, because with RUP the practices are all intertwined and cannot be taken in isolation.
The approach is practice-centric instead of process-role centered.
The practices at the heart of EssUP have been developed with a new and innovative approach based on aspect-oriented thinking.
The Essential Unified Process is much simpler, and much more flexible and extensible than previous expressions of UP. It is presented with a lightweight and friendly approach which makes learning the process easy, some might say even agile.
It is announced that EssUP will be supported both by the IBM Rational toolset, Eclipse and Microsoft's Visual Studio.
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