RUP and PMBOK

Lot of us uses Rational tools for software development. RUP is one of the hottest techniques. We develop software application based on Rational Unified Process. This is a project management tool being widely used. Some PM consider RUP focuses on best practices of software project management. Then comes PMI Project Management Institute with its own PMBOK. It focuses on the best practices for management of projects in any domain. As a PMP certified manager how you can work on RUP projects. This question is asked almost every day.

Here is an interesting article by Serge Chabonneau of Xelaration Software Corporation under the title "Software Project Management -- A Mapping between RUP and the PMBOK" (From The Rational Edge: This paper compares the Rational Unified Process (RUP) with the PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK) and provides a mapping between best practices in the RUP project management discipline and best practices in the PMBOK).

This article gives RUp overview and then mentions dimensions of RUP, RUP disciplines, RUP lifecycles and RUP PM disciplines. Then it gives comparison between RUP and PMBOK. It is pretty interesting.

In the end the author concludes in his own words

"Based on the comparison between RUP and PMBOK, there are no fundamental incompatibilities between the two standards. As highlighted in this paper, different terms are used to describe semantically similar or identical concepts, but nothing in RUP contradicts the PMBOK practices and nothing in PMBOK contradicts the RUP practices."

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