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

["Scott W. Ambler" <swa@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

You might find http://www.agilemodeling.com/essays/agileUsability.htm to
be of interest.

- Scott
On Sun, March 4, 2007 1:26 pm, Nate Oster said:
> 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.
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> 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.
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> Sabre said that "User-interface design techniques, for instance, are
> typically treated separately, and deployment into production isn't
> usually addressed"
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> UX is an area that we've been heavily involved with effectively
> integrating into OpenUP at our www.myhealth.va.gov
> <http://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.
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> Thanks,
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> Nate
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> -----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?
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> On Sun, March 4, 2007 8:06 am, Brian Lyons said:
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>> hiho,
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>> I was surfing around looking at some pages relating to the usage of
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>> agile techniques and I came across this very small article
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> <http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic
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>> &articleId=273413>  referencing the success Sabre is having in
> applying
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>> an agile process.
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>> I was sort of put off by this erroneous-sounding snippet: "Sabre's
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>> approach to agile development draws from other iterative programming
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>> techniques such as UML".  Certainly UML can be an important
> development
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>> technique applied in iterative development, but I wouldn't casually
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>> reference it as an "iterative programming technique".
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> You naively assume that the writer understands the material that they're
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> writing about.  ;-)
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>> Anyway, the intriguing quote is this one: "As Sabre began developing a
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>> runtime infrastructure in 2004, project iterations would typically
> start
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>> with an inception phase - an evaluation of what Sabre's products could
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>> do in a Web services environment - followed by an elaboration phase".
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>> Hmmm, agility and a set of phases starting with inception and then
> going
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>> on to elaboration.  And usage of UML.  Sounds like a great idea!
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> Definitely.  Does anyone have any contacts at Sabre?  Perhaps we should
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> approach them?
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> - Scott
>
> Practice Leader Agile Development, IBM Rational
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