In today's IT market everyone strives for cheaper, faster, better and happier and preferably all at the same time. Cheaper for a better business case, faster for a shorter time-to-market, better quality to reduce future cost of maintainance and support and happier customers and team members. To reach these goals, organizations turn to development methods.

The avalable methods vary widely in the level of ceremony they support, their adaptability and their learnability and ease of use. What is often forgotten is that they also have their specific view on the IT world. Where one can focus solely on team organization, another can focus mainly on specialist practices. This means that selecting one single method for IT development — although easiest to communicate to the organisation — isn't always the best way to go.

In this book, the authors bring together their experiences in combining Scrum, XP and RUP. They offer a ready-to-use approach on IT development. Seemingly effortless they bridge the gap between methods and show how on method caries on where the other stops. The visualizations in this book make it easy to read and can help you see how all aspects of ScrumUP relate to one another and how they help the team improve their way of working.