It’s a “mainstream press” article in ComputerWorld,
and it looks like it’s been edited to death. I’m pretty sure
the UML faux paux is from a redaction. They clearly mean RUP.
It’s funny that such a short article should zero right in on two areas
that Number Six has also had challenges with when enacting RUP with clients - integrating
User Experience (UX), and effectively tailoring the Deployment discipline.
Sabre said that “User-interface design techniques, for instance,
are typically treated separately, and deployment into production isn’t
usually addressed”
UX is an area that we’ve been heavily involved with effectively
integrating into OpenUP at our www.myhealth.va.gov
portal client, where we’ve gained a lot of experience about how to make
UX a normal part of iterative, incremental development throughout the lifecycle. Actually doing
lightweight UX processes turns out to be a lot more focused in the A&D and Implementation
disciplines than it is in Requirements.
Thanks,
Nate
-----Original Message-----
From: epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:epf-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Scott W. Ambler
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2007 9:04 AM
To: Eclipse Process Framework Project Developers List
Subject: Re: [epf-dev] Sabre's Agile Methodology: OpenUP-ish?
On Sun, March 4, 2007 8:06 am, Brian Lyons said:
> hiho,
>
>
>
> I was surfing around looking at some pages relating to the usage
of
> agile techniques and I came across this very small article
> <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic
> &articleId=273413> referencing the success Sabre is
having in applying
> an agile process.
>
>
>
> I was sort of put off by this erroneous-sounding snippet:
"Sabre's
> approach to agile development draws from other iterative programming
> techniques such as UML". Certainly UML can be an
important development
> technique applied in iterative development, but I wouldn't
casually
> reference it as an "iterative programming technique".
You naively assume that the writer understands the material that
they're
writing about. ;-)
>
>
>
> Anyway, the intriguing quote is this one: "As Sabre began
developing a
> runtime infrastructure in 2004, project iterations would typically
start
> with an inception phase - an evaluation of what Sabre's products
could
> do in a Web services environment - followed by an elaboration
phase".
> Hmmm, agility and a set of phases starting with inception and then
going
> on to elaboration. And usage of UML. Sounds like a
great idea!
Definitely. Does anyone have any contacts at Sabre? Perhaps
we should
approach them?
- Scott
Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Rational
http://www-306.ibm.com/software/rational/bios/ambler.html
Refactoring Databases (
http://www.ambysoft.com/books/refactoringDatabases.html ) is now
available.
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