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Introduction

Agile Unified Process is a simplified version of Rational Unified Process which takes the best practices of RUP and Agile Methodology. AUP is nothing but looking at RUP from an agile practitioner's point of view. RUP is considered to be a rigid artifact driven replacement for waterfall. But its software development processes and practices can be made flexible to fit into the right size of methodology of your project. Similarly Agile Methodology is characterized by an emphasis on people, communication, working software, and responding to change, what it does not speaks about is documentation. So I am advocating for a middle line between RUP and Agile which can fit into any software engineering practices starting from product development to service oriented companies.