European Scientific Journal May 2014 edition vol.10, No.15 ISSN: 1857 – 7881 (Print) e - ISSN 1857- 7431 293 EMBEDDING PROJECT MANAGEMENT INTO XP, SCRUM AND RUP Mohammad Usman , Department of IT, SZABIST Dubai, United Arab Emirates Tariq Rahim Soomro Department of Computer Science, Sindh Madressatul Islam University, Karachi, Pakistan Muhammad Nawaz Brohi Department of IT, SZABIST Dubai, United Arab Emirates Abstract The latest addition in the field of system engineering is project management of software engineering. Various software project management methods and trends are adopted in order to get high quality software product at inexpensive cost with accurate timeframe for delivery and with minimum uncertainty. There are various activities such as (planning successfully, coordinating, management of risk, scope changes) are tough for a project. All these objectives only achieved when status of the project is appropriately controlled and monitored. (XP), Scrum, RUP and Project management (PMBOK) are helping in development of software’s more easily and rapidly. In this paper first will study methodologies and how activities and knowledge areas of project management and how these can be embedded into modern development life cycle of Scrum, XP, and RUP to improve the quality of software products and minimizing the uncertainties. Keywords: XP, Scrum, Rup and Project Management 1. Introduction IT (information Technology) is fastest growing domain in the world. In these days number of companies working in the field of software development, they must have updated knowledge to compete in the market. It is very critical task to choose correct tools, techniques and methodology when we need to deliver good quality and maintainable product within the limit of cost and time [1]. Now days advanced methods and techniques in development of software assisting companies to improve their business, but they have to select method and techniques very carefully. Because some of having negative effect on software product (e.g. poor performance, bad