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AUP
Last modified: Friday, June 23, 2006
(1)
Short for acceptable use policy. Also known as TOS (Terms of Service). A contract specifying what a subscriber can and cannot do while using an ISP's service. Contains things like liability disclaimers, lists of actions or behavior that will result in the termination of a customers account, definition of terms such as "unlimited use," billing policies, SPAM clauses, etc.
(2) Short for Agile Unified Process, a
simplified version of the Rational Unified Process (RUP). It describes a simple,
easy to understand approach to developing business application software using
agile techniques and concepts yet still remaining true to the RUP.
The Agile Unified Process (AUP) The first thing that you'll notice is that the disciplines have changed. First, the Model discipline encompasses the RUP's Business Modeling, Requirements, and Analysis & Design disciplines. Model is an important part of the AUP, as you can see, but it doesn't dominate the process -- you want to stay agile by creating models and documents which are just barely good enough.
