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How We Got Here, And What To Do About It

Topics
Waterfall,
CodeMash 2012,
Project Management,
Continuous Improvement,
CodeMash,
Agile,
Process,
Conferences,
RUP

Barry emphasizes the need to continue thinking critically about the processes and practices we embrace, accounting for the context in which they exist, and the importance of reflection and refinement at both the organizational and personal levels.

News about RUP

The Various Flavors of Unified Process

Topics
Agile in the Enterprise,
Process,
Agile,
Agile UP,
Open UP,
Enterprise UP,
EssUP,
RUP

The Rational Unified Process(RUP) was developed through the 1990's as a framework for software engineering best practices. Features such as iterations, simplicity, focus on value and regular feedback were identified as being important for Asuccessful software engineering. A number of authors have built methodologies that adapt UP to different project domains. This article examines some of them.

MomentumSI Releases new SOA Framework

Topics
SOA,
Governance,
Methodologies,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming,
Modeling,
RUP

MomentumSI released yesterday its SOA Framework -Harmony. It contains 5 perspectives which include Lifecycle, Governance, Technology, Maturity Model and Information Model. A SOA Framework is typically used to structure the organization, processes, activities, metadata... deployed for service construction.

Reading List: Agility and Discipline Made Easy

Topics
Agile Techniques,
Best Practices,
Agile,
Programming,
Open UP,
RUP,
Book

It's always interesting to check out what's at the top of your colleagues' reading pile... This week, it's a selection from the reading list of InfoQ's architect and co-founder, Alexander Popescu. Alex thought so much of this book, he recommends it to all team participants.

Agile, Orthodoxy and a Message From God

Topics
XP,
Pair Programming,
Methodologies,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Scrum,
Agile,
AUP,
Programming,
Certification,
MDA,
EUP,
RUP

A long and complex thread on the ScrumDevelopment list, set off by the phrase "Agile 2.0," has been exploring the past and future of Agile methodologies (for good or ill) including so-called "next generations" approaches like AUP, MSF Agile, and AMDD. Ron Jeffries, Ken Schwaber and Scott Ambler are just a few of the serious agilists who participated in this lively conversation.

SOA Integration and Methodologies

Topics
SOA,
Methodologies,
Service Design,
Architecture,
Enterprise Architecture,
RUP,
Programming

Miko Matsumura interviews John Harby, an independent consultant, OASIS Techican Committee member and SOA practitioner on popular SOA implementation methodologies.

IBM Updates Rational Toolset

Topics
IBM Rational,
Agile Architecture,
Artifacts & Tools,
Scaling Agile,
Agile in the Enterprise,
Application Lifecycle Management,
Tools,
ALM,
IBM,
SOA,
Methodologies,
Architecture,
Companies,
RUP,
Enterprise Architecture,
Programming,
Agile

IBM announced today a host of new SOA tools which were launched at the Rational Software Development Conference 2006. These tools increasingly support governance through the lifecycle stages of design, development, deployment, testing and maintenance.

Converting a project from a waterfall to an iterative approach

Topics
Process Adoption,
Methodologies,
Adoption,
SPI,
Agile,
Change,
RUP,
Programming

Software developers who firmly believe in an iterative approach must work for clients who, for various reasons, are rooted in a traditional methodology. This article discusses ways to help such organizations make a transition.

Articles about RUP

Interview: IBM Architect Bertrand Portier on joining MDD and SOA

Topics
Domain Specific Languages,
SOA Platforms,
SOA,
Languages,
Governance,
Architecture,
Programming,
Enterprise Architecture,
SOA Appliance,
RUP

In the wake of the latest product announcement from IBM, InfoQ talked to Bertrand Portier about a RedBook that presents a Model-Driven-Development approach to service construction. The concepts are general enough to be applied to product stacks other than IBM.

Interviews about RUP

Per Kroll on the Eclipse Process Framework

Topics
Artifacts & Tools,
Tools,
Methodologies,
Agile,
Agile2006,
Open UP,
Programming,
RUP

The PM of the Eclipse Process Framework project explained at Agile2006 how IBM's Eclipse-based process tools allow teams to select the practices they want to create a customized methodology that works for them. With a wiki and hooks to insert custom in-house documentation and practices, it provides a framework to configure the approach you want, or to grow into the approach you need.

Per Kroll on Agility & Discipline, Distributed Dev, RUP Subsets

Topics
Distributed Teams,
Teamwork,
Agile Techniques,
Methodologies,
Agile,
Programming,
Agile2006,
RUP

Per Kroll is responsible for developing and managing RUP at Rational. In the interview, Per shares insights from his book 'Agility and Discipline', Agile practices for distributed development, how RUP is changing to support teams that want to customize it, and RUP vs. Agile.