SPaMCAST 27 - Jacobson, Practices, Futurists - a podcast by Thomas M. Cagley Jr

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Show 27 features part one of an
interview with Ivar Jacobson, author, pundit and one of the creators of UML.  The discussion covered topics ranging from methodologies
to his new concept, practices.   If
process improvement and methodology are important to you, this is an important
interview full of new concepts.








An abridged version of Mr.
Jacobson’s Wikipedia biography notes that he is a Swedish computer scientist he
holds a Masters of Electrical Engineering at Chalmers Institute of Technology
in Gothenburg
and a Ph.D. from
the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.








In 1967 he proposed the use of
software components in the development of the
new generation of software controlled telephone
switches Ericsson
was developing. In doing this he invented sequence
diagrams, and developed collaboration diagrams. He also applied state
transition diagrams to describe the message flow between the components.








At Ericsson he also invented use cases as
a way to specify functional software requirements.








In April 1987 he quit Ericsson
and started Objective Systems. A majority stake of the
company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991 (you can run but  . . .) , and the company was renamed to Objectory
AB.








In October 1995 Ericsson
divested Objectory to Rational Software [1] and Ivar started working
with Grady
Booch and James Rumbaugh to first create the UML, and later develop the Rational Unified Process.








In mid 2003 Ivar formed Ivar
Jacobson International (IJI) which is an umbrella company for Ivar
Jacobson Consulting (IJC) which operates across 4 continents with offices
in the UK, US (West and East Coast), Scandinavia, China, Korea, Singapore and
Australia.








In November 2005, Jacobson
announced the Essential Unified Process or “EssUP" for
short. EssUP is a new “Practice" centric software development process that
stands on the shoulders of modern but established software development best
practice. It is a fresh new start integrating successful practices sourced from
the three leading process camps: the unified process camp, the agile methods
camp and the process maturity camp. Each one of them contributes different
capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement.








Ivar has described EssUP as a
"super light and agile" RUP and IJC have integrated EssUP into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System and Eclipse.








Check out http://www.ivarjacobson.com   and








http://www.ivarblog.com/








 








The essay for
this cast is titled “We Are All Futurists."  The essay discusses the basis for predicting
the future (can you say estimation) and why some people shy away from being a
futurist.  The text of the essay can be
found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.








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Future
Events and the next . . .








I
have a couple of free webinars coming up in early 2008.  The first is “Getting Performance Improvement
Out of Your Software Process Improvement" on Wednesday, April 23, 2008 10:00 AM
- 11:30 AM EDT








And
the second is titled “A Cost Effective Approach to Enterprise Wide Software
Process Improvement" May 22nd, 2008 at 10:00 am - 11:30 am Eastern Time








More
information and registration information can be found at http://www.itmpi.org/webinars/








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The next
Software Process and Measurement Cast will be a special show.  Cast 28 will feature part two of the interview
with Ivar Jacobson.  Your thoughts and
comments would be a welcome addition . . .
 





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