ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The Rational Unified Process reflects the wisdom of a great many software professionals from Rational Software and elsewhere. The history of the process can be found inChapter 2. But putting together a book, even as small and modest as this one, required the dedicated effort of a slate of people, whom I would like to recognize here.

The members of the Rational Process Development Group assembled the Rational Unified Process and contributed to this introduction. You will see some of their names associated with specific chapters.

Kurt Bittner contributed to the analysis and design chapter, contributed to project management and test, and developed the data engineering aspects.
Maria Ericsson developed the business engineering and requirements management aspect and was a keeper of the process architecture.
Leslee Probasco contributed to the requirements management workflow.
Stefan Bylund contributed to the analysis and design chapter and integrated the user -interface design aspects.
H kan Dyrhage contributed many ideas to the organization and structure of the process and to its implementation and configuration and also coordinated the development of the online version.
John Smith expanded the project management aspects for RUP 2000.
Jas Madhur contributed the ideas on configuration management, change management, and deployment.
Bruce Katz contributed the testing aspects of the process.
Margaret Chan was responsible for the product integration and for the assembly of most of the artwork in this book.
Debbie Gray is the devoted administrative assistant of a team spread across nine time zones.

We are very grateful to Grady Booch for writing Chapter 1.

Per Kroll is the marketing manager for the Rational Unified Process, and Paer Jansson is its product manager, joined recently by Matt Herdon. Christina Gisselberg and Eric Turesson designed and developed the online version. Stefan Ahlqvist developed the ideas on user-interface design. Chinh Vo helped assemble the book.

The Rational Unified Process and this book benefited from the reviews and ideas of Dave Bernstein, Grady Booch, Geoff Clemm, Catherine Connor, Mike Devlin, Christian Ehrenborg (Dr. Usecase), Sam Guckenheimer, Bj rn Gustafsson, Ivar Jacobson, Ron Krubek, Dean Leffingwell, Andrew Lyons, Bruce Malasky, Roger Oberg, Gary Pollice, Leslee Probasco, Terri Quatrani, Walker Royce, Jim Rumbaugh, John Smith, and Brian White.

We would also like to thank our partners ”Scott Ambler, Ensemble Systems, IBM Global Services, and Content Integration ”for their contributions.

Special thanks go to the Rational field, and especially our British friends , who have always had some special interest in the Rational process: Ian Gavin, Ian Spence, and Mike Tudball.

The Frenglish and the Swenglish were ironed out by Joy Hemphill and Pamela Clarke.

And finally many thanks to our editor, J. Carter Shanklin, as well as Kristin Erickson, Marilyn Rash and her team, and all the staff at Addison Wesley Longman for getting this book out as quickly as they did.

Philippe Kruchten

Vancouver, B.C., Canada