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RE: [epf-dev] Sabre's Agile Methodology: OpenUP-ish?

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,

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> 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.

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> 

> 

> 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.  ;-)

 

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> 

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> 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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