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Posted by Scott Ambler on Jun 07, 2006
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:
Learning to be a Good Product Owner: Foundation Skills
Technical Debt and Design Death
VersionOne is recognized by Agile practitioners as the leader in Agile project management tools. Companies such as Adobe, BBC, CNN, Dow, HP, IBM, Sony and 3M have turned to VersionOne to help deliver greater value to their customers.
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.
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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