Adopting RUP (Rational Unified Process) on a software development project

This thesis analyzes the process of applying Rational Unified Process (RUP) successfully on a software development project step by step. Many software development projects today have a tendency to fail on some level. Even though they may not fail entirely, they might be completed with schedule delays, budget overrun or with poor quality that do not meet the requirements of customers because of poor management and lack of necessary documentation of the project. Applying RUP avoids these major problems in a project by developing set of work products which depict the essentials of the system from requirements to detailed design before the system could be implemented. However, software development teams have an overall attitude that RUP becomes less agile and too rigid as the size of projects get smaller. The thesis will also try to prove that this opinion is not true by using tools Rational Method Composer (RMC) and Rational Software Modeler (RSM) to successfully complete the project.