Beyond RUP

Object technology is a growing approach for the development of quality software. It provides a sophisticated environment to support good software engineering practice. Use of object technology should not be restricted to languages but should encompass full lifecycle support by use of an object-oriented (OO) development methodology or process. Integrated process-focused OO approaches to software development, whilst vital to successful project management, have not been a strong feature of extant approaches popularly practiced. RUP and OPEN have been developed independently primarily to address these issues.