It is entitled "What's New In Application Development Processes And
Methodologies" and it mentions EPF and OpenUP.
There are some interesting nuances, though I happen to take issue with a
few parts. The author of the presentation characterizes OpenUP as being
under the RUP framework and then characterizes the RUP framework
processes as not fully agile in part because they don’t “belong to the
family of Agile processes or fully embody the principles of Agile
development”. Then there is a reference to the fact that OpenUP/Basic
is meant to be Agile, but is not because it is “tooled”.
I like to clearly describe OpenUP as conforming to the Unified Process
framework rather than any vendor branded version of the UP (i.e. UP
rather than RUP). I am not interested in whether the process belongs to
any “family”. I disagree that OpenUP does not fully embody the
principles of Agile development. I don’t believe the fact that OpenUP
can be applied by people and also viewed in HTML and tailored with EPF
Composer causes it to be any less Agile. But that’s just me.
In part I am pleased to see EPF getting visibility in the analyst
community. But I see that we have a problem in the way we are
presenting OpenUP such that people have a difficult time separating out
the process from the usage of technology for rendering or tailoring its
description. I guess we should have written a book first (or a couple
dozen books as can be found for some of the other Agile processes), and
then afterward created the downloadable web page and a tool to tailor
it. Then maybe <poof> OpenUP/Basic would be Agile.