What is RUP, DRUP and UP.

I am new to sofware development and am looking to expand my knowledge base. I am famililiar with Extreme Programming(XP). What are the others I left in the Subject section of this posting?

I can tell you about RUP - Rational Unified Process
UP/DRUP could be some variations.
HTH
Sanjay
[ February 19, 2002: Message edited by: Sanjay Bahal ]

From the Rational Paper:
The Rational Unified Process is a Software Engineering Process. It provides a disciplined approach to assigning tasks and responsibilities within a development organization. Its goal is to ensure the production of high-quality software that meets the needs of its end-users, within a predictable schedule and budget.
The Rational Unified Process provides each team member with the guidelines, templates and tool mentors necessary for the entire team to take full advantage of among others the following best practices:

Develop software iteratively

Manage requirements

Use component-based architectures

Visually model software

Verify software quality

Control changes to software

Sanjay
[ February 20, 2002: Message edited by: Sanjay Bahal ]

Hi friends,
As explained earlier, RUP is Rational Unified Process. Since it became very popular and was accepted commercially, OMG decided to make it a standard(similar to UML).
But since a standard cannot be related to a company(Rational in this case), the standard will be called the Unified Process(UP).
As far as what DRUP means, your guess is as good as mine. Maybe the Bartenders need to step in to explain the meaning of DRUP

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Regards,
Prasanna.