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 in Chapter 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.

Early members of the Process Development Group assembled the Rational Unified Process and contributed to this introduction. Stefan Bylund, then Kurt Bittner, and finally Bruce Macisaac contributed to the analysis and design chapter. Maria Ericsson developed the business engineering and requirements management aspect with Leslee Probasco. The test part was started by Bruce Katz and then completely redesigned by Paul Szymkowiak. John Smith expanded the project management aspects for RUP 2000. Jas Madhur contributed the ideas on configuration management, change management, and deployment. H kan Dyrhage contributed many ideas to the organization and structure of the process and to its implementation and configuration. Margaret Chan was responsible for the product integration and for the assembly of most of the artwork in this book with Susan Buie. Sigurd Hopen developed the PEP with the help of Bj rn Gustafsson.

Per Kroll is the manager of the development group, Mike Barnard the product manager. Alfredo Bencomo, Chinh Vo, Philip Denno, Lars Jenzer, Glenys Macisaac, and Fionna Chong developed the product infrastructure. And Debbie Gray is the devoted administrative assistant of a team spread across nine time zones.

The Rational Unified Process and this book benefited over the past 8 years from the reviews and ideas of Stefan Ahlqvist, Dave Bernstein, Grady Booch, Murray Cantor, Geoff Clemm, Catherine Connor, Mike Devlin, Christian Ehrenborg, Ian Gavin, Christina Gisselberg, Sam Guckenheimer, Bj rn Gustafsson, Matt Herdon, Ivar Jacobson, Paer Jansson, Ron Krubek, Dean Leffingwell, Andrew Lyons, Bruce Malasky, Roger Oberg, Gary Pollice, Terri Quatrani, Walker Royce, Jim Rumbaugh, Ian Spence, John Smith, and Brian White.

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

Special thanks go to the Rational field, members of our Chat_RUP list, and our users, members of the RUP_Forum, for their feedback, and contributions.

And finally many thanks to our editor Mary O'Brien, our former editor J. Carter Shanklin, as well as Brenda Mulligan, Amy Fleischer and her team, and all the staff at Addison-Wesley for getting this book out as quickly and smoothly as they did.

Philippe  Kruchten
Vancouver,  B.C.,  Canada



The Rational Unified Process. An Introduction
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ISBN: B0072U14D8
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2002
Pages: 193

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