Rational Unified Process Alternative for Documentation and Templates?

Question

Is there any free or open alternative to RUP?

Answer 1

I just found this: http://www.eclipse.org/epf/ which looks like a good start. Any more?

Answer 2

There is OpenUp, see Wikipedia overview reproduced hereafter. The Eclipse Foundation also issued OpenUp templates (MS Word .dot format, EPL V1.0 license).

The Open Unified Process (OpenUP) is a part of the Eclipse Process Framework (EPF), an open source process framework developed within the Eclipse Foundation. It provides best practices from a variety of software development thought leaders and the broader software development community that cover a diverse set of perspectives and development needs.

OpenUP preserves the essential characteristics of RUP / Unified Process, which includes iterative development, use cases and scenarios driving development, risk management, and architecture-centric approach.

The most agile and lightweight form of OpenUP, OpenUP/Basic, targets smaller and co-located teams interested in agile and iterative development. Small projects constitute teams of 3 to 6 people and involve 3 to 6 months of development effort.

Answer 3

The Microsoft Solutions Framework.

IBM has an article comparing MSF to RUP.

And in the interest of equal time, there's this article on MSDN comparing MSF to RUP.