EssUP with TFS is OUT, ICONIX with SPARX is IN

The EssUP (Essential Unified Process) is over a year (almost 2 now) past dates promised for the Process Template for Team Foundation Server. We have been reading the articles that have been coming out and enjoying all the publicity around the non-existent process, but we are done waiting on it.

For the past 12 months the only answers to 'when' will the TFS template for EssUP be released has been 'soon'.

I have been evaluating the new release of SPARX 7.0 beta 2. It has improved integration with the ICONIX process guidance as well as a lot of other improvements.

Here are a few ICONIX links:
Roadmap
ICONIX Process Overview
Books
Enterprise Architect Add-In
ICONIX Software Engineering, Inc.
Agile Development with ICONIX Process - 3 Part Overview

Below is a screen shot of the SPARX 7.0 Beta 2 and the ICONIX menu.



Click HERE for a larger image.

We are looking to adopted a process for some of our projects that will allow for mid to lower ceremony in order to facility a higher degree of agility. We will still use Product Line Engineering when appropriate, and the Rational Unified Process for higher ceremony projects.

EssUP was our first choice when we heard about it, but the rose colored glasses have come off with the company's failure to deliver anything except marketing propaganda (Enough of the Talk: Let's Do Implementation).

ICONIX integration into SPARX is excellent (ICONIX SPARX Page) and the process is a proven process. I would suggest reading "Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice" if you plan on going the same direction.

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