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While the Rational Universal Process (RUP) has not achieved the dominance of UML, and is a long way from being accepted as a standard, many organizations have adopted it, and claim to be using it. But at the same time, there are many concerns about RUP. Is it the best choice for component-based development and web services, and what viable alternatives are there? RUP nominally comes as a flexible process - choose the bits you like. However, it does take quite a while to work out what's most appropriate - so there's good business for consultants! In this review, we open an investigation of some leading software processes. We aim to define a framework that will assist in selection and particularly customization, and in subsequent reports we will assess in detail the various product offerings that are available against this framework.
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