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Not Just for Rational: Essential Unified Proces - Ivar Jacobson

A UML ‘amigo’ discusses the lighter, platform-agnostic version of RUP he is developing

By Jennifer deJong

January 15, 2006 — (Page 1 of 3)
Best known, along with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, as one of the “Three Amigos” who co-invented the Unified Modeling Language, Ivar Jacobson announced late last year that he is developing the Essential Unified Process. Recently, SD Times spoke to Jacobson about his work.

SD Times: What is the Essential Unified Process?

Ivar Jacobson: It makes use of experience and knowledge gained from RUP. But everything that is not absolutely necessary goes away. We don’t reuse any of the material. We throw away everything that is heavy.

Can you give me an example of something that is heavy?

For example, RUP includes thousands of pages [of guidance and knowledge]. But people don’t read it; it’s too much for people to think about. Essential will include no more than 200 pages. It will keep the core ideas of RUP. [A concept known as] intelligent agents will also play a role. They will deliver pages only as you need them. They work as virtual mentors.

What are the core ideas of RUP?

There are five: components; models; iterative and incremental; architecture; use cases. [RUP is based on] components and models. It is iterative and incremental, and it is architecture and use-case driven. If you focus on architecture early in the life cycle, there is less need for refactoring. When you identify use cases up-front, they give an automatic project plan.

In late November you announced plans to deliver Essential UP for Visual Studio Team System. But Essential UP isn’t designed solely for Microsoft developers, is it?

No. It is generic knowledge that can be instantiated in different platforms.

Is Jaczone [the software company Jacobson co-founded with his daughter Agneta in 2000] or any other company working on a version of Essential UP for the IBM Rational Software Development Platform?

We want to spread the core practices that will be part of Essential Unified Process as widely as possible to help the many organizations that may benefit from them. Thus, we have partnered with Microsoft to make them available to the .NET world. We have also partnered with IBM to make the part of RUP that they donate to Eclipse (called Basic UP) as successful as possible.

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