SPaMCAST 28 - Ivar Jacobson, The Future, Social Media - a podcast by Thomas M. Cagley Jr

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Show 28 features Part Two 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 “Social Media and Process Improvement."  The essay discusses the impact of social media
on the practice of process improvement.  The
text of the essay can be found at www.tcagley.wordpress.com.  Comments and corrections are welcome.






There
are a number of ways to share your thoughts . .











 






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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