Typemock: Past, Present and Future
Eli Lopian of Typemock answers a few questions on Typemock origins and where Typemock is headed.
Tracking change and innovation in the enterprise software development community
Posted by Scott Ambler on Jun 07, 2006 09:05 AM
The Essential Unified Process (Ess UP) is a streamlined version of the UP which, as the name implies, captures the essential practices required to be successful on a UP project. At the Rational Software Development Conference (RSDC) this week Jacobson overviewed the work being done within his company. The Ess UP describes an agile approach to development following the UP. As Jacobson succinctly put it: "These days, saying that you're not agile is like saying that you're not potent".
Seriously though, key points which Jacobson made about the Ess UP:
The Agile Business Analyst: Skills and Techniques needed for Agile
The End of Middleware: Freedom from IT Stacks as we know it
We also need intelligent agents, such as what we see with JacZone's Waypointer, to help guide and mentor IT professionals as they do their job.
I watched Ivar's presentation on Intelligent Agents at the excellent JAOO conference in Norway last year. The vision of having a little agent helper guy training you on your computer didn't seem like something people would want to do. Ivar claimed however that using an agent could allow for having a very huge process, because the agent would simply present parts of it when necessary only, making use of the process more consumable.
Hi Floyd, I was at JAOO too, although I was in Denmark, not sure about you ;-). I agree with what you say. When Ivar mentioned these Intelligent Agents I wrote "Microsoft clippy?" in my notes. If I remember rightly, he didn't think that they would be just for coders, but for all parts of the project. I had visions of a little character popping up and saying "Hey, it looks like you're project managing a J2EE project, would you like help with that?". Speaking with other delegates and speakers, I didn't find anyone who thought it sounded a good idea. So I don't think this idea will fly.
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