Tailoring RUP to Small Software Development Teams

In the last decades we have been witnessing a significant increase in the complexity inherent to software development projects, due not only to a higher degree of sophistication in the contexts they aim to serve, but also to the natural evolution of the features implemented by the available software systems and applications. However, the reduced dimension of many software corporations imposes a significant constraint to the group of individuals that might be involved in each project, with obvious consequences to their efficiency and effectiveness. This paper describes how to accomplish a configuration of the Rational Unified Process (RUP) in order to obtain one set of RUP roles that, without neglecting any critical role of the software development process, may easily be adopted by a small or medium software development team during the project execution period.