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This page contains links to resources regarding the iterative development practice. The iterative development practice promotes the creation of a solution in increments. Each increment is completed in a fixed period of time, an iteration.

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There are many materials on this subject: the following links are good starting points for you to get a more comprehensive understanding of this topic.

Courses:

• Principles of IBM Rational Unified Process (link to Web-based training description)
• PRJ270: Essentials of the Rational Unified Process (link to course description)
• PRJ480: Mastering the Management of Iterative Development (link to course description)
• Rational Unified Process and Iterative Development Boot Camp (link to course description)

Tools:

• IBM® Rational® Team Concert (link)
• IBM® Rational® Method Composer (link)

Help (tools):

• Rational Team Concert InfoCenter (link requires jazz.net user ID and password)

IBM® developerWorks®:

• Article: What is iterative development? (links: part 1, part 2 and part 3)
• Article: From Waterfall to Iterative Development: A Challenging Transition for Project Managers (link)
• Article: Overcoming cultural challenges in adopting iterative development (link)
• Article: Overlapping iterations in a RUP-based project (link)
• Tutorial: Creating an iteration plan in RTC (link)
• Tutorial: Managing Work Items in RTC (link)

Books 

• Bittner, Kurt and Spence, Ian. Managing Iterative Software Development Projects. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2006.
• Cohn, Mike. Agile Estimating and Planning. Prentice Hall, 2006.
• Royce, Walker. Software Project Management: A Unified Framework (chapter 10). Addison Wesley. 1999.

Other Useful Links

• IBM® Rational Unified Process® (RUP®) forum (link)

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