Essential Unified Process (essUP) and MSF
I have been hearing a lot about the Essential Unified Process (essUP).
A few links to the chatter: SD Times and eweek articles.
Ivar Jacobson's Introduction to essUP can be found here.
So far I have not seen anything that makes it different from the original Unified Process, but it is definitely something to keep an eye on. The Unified Process has been the heart beat of successful processes for years now.
According to the SD Times article (link above) we can expect to see something the end of this quarter or the beginning of the next.
I am glad to hear this will be coming out built into the MSF framework that allows it to be tied into VSTS 2005. The process frameworks presented by Microsoft so far have not impressed me, as I stated here.
One thing that has me puzzled though is Ivar states the essUP will include a subset of the UML language for use with essUP. I wonder, will Microsoft step up and provide some UML modeling tools to support this subset that are integrated into VSTS 2005, or will we be left with Visio or a third party tool?
Hopefully Microsoft will also step into putting together an MSF framework for product line engineering. Especially since it is the core of their new Software Factories movement.
A few links to the chatter: SD Times and eweek articles.
Ivar Jacobson's Introduction to essUP can be found here.
So far I have not seen anything that makes it different from the original Unified Process, but it is definitely something to keep an eye on. The Unified Process has been the heart beat of successful processes for years now.
According to the SD Times article (link above) we can expect to see something the end of this quarter or the beginning of the next.
I am glad to hear this will be coming out built into the MSF framework that allows it to be tied into VSTS 2005. The process frameworks presented by Microsoft so far have not impressed me, as I stated here.
One thing that has me puzzled though is Ivar states the essUP will include a subset of the UML language for use with essUP. I wonder, will Microsoft step up and provide some UML modeling tools to support this subset that are integrated into VSTS 2005, or will we be left with Visio or a third party tool?
Hopefully Microsoft will also step into putting together an MSF framework for product line engineering. Especially since it is the core of their new Software Factories movement.
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