New White Papers and Other Information

The Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) extends the RUP to address the real-world needs of many organizations. One extension is the addition of the Enterprise Management (EM) discipline, formerly called the Infrastructure Management discipline, which addresses the activities surrounding multi-system environments.  The EM discipline consists of eight sub-disciplines. John Nalbone is the primary author of this information, and you can read about them at:  http://www.enterpriseunifiedprocess.info/essays/enterpriseManagement.html

Scott Ambler's two new RUP white papers, “Data and the RUP” (www.agiledata.org/essays/rup.html) and “Reuse Opportunities Throughout the RUP Lifecycle” (www.flashline.com/fcm/SDPCSeries.jsp) explore issues critical to RUP projects.

The following agile modeling white papers have been posted:

    - “Agile Model Driven Design (AMDD)” www.agilemodeling.com/essays/amdd.htm
    - “Software Modeling on Whiteboards” www.agilemodeling.com/essays/whiteboardModeling.htm

The Full-Lifecycle Object-Oriented Testing (FLOOT) methodology is a collection of testing techniques to verify and validate object-oriented software. Read about it at: https://ronin-intl.com/publications/floot.html

Scott Ambler's July 2003 SD Magazine column, “Running Interference” (www.sdmagazine.com/documents/s=8269/sdm0307h/sdm0703h.html), is now online.  You will need to register (free) at the site if you are not already a member there.

Scott also recently completed an interesting interview with Borland, and it can be viewed at: http://community.borland.com/article/0,1410,30055,00.html

Finally, Scott was recently a keynote speaker at The ServerSide, info can be found at (you may have to scroll down to “day 3” as I do not see Scott in the beer garden [he hides well I guess!]: http://www.theserverside.com/resources/article.jsp?l=SymposiumCoverage#ambler. 

Video interviews with Scott will be posted at the ServerSide site within the next few weeks.  I’ll keep you informed!

Upcoming Events

Scott will be speaking in August at the XP Agile Universe conference.  Details can be found at: http://www.xpuniverse.com/schedule/T7.

SD East in Boston is coming up quick in September – please visit www.sdexpo.com for more information.  Scott will be presenting a ton of workshops, and I will be there too!  Please let me know if you’d be interested in setting up a meeting with Scott and I during this event; I will coordinate it (sign up early – Scott’s schedule is usually packed that week!).  Also, please let me know if you’d be interested in spending the weekend ahead of that conference with Scott talking about everything under the sun – send me an e-mail and I will send you more information about it.

Travel Logs

Well, Scott Ambler is one lucky guy – traveling the world as usual.  Someone has to do it, and it is a lifestyle he loves! In addition to traveling, Scott is an avid amateur photographer (you should see his house – pictures from every continent!). One of the recent spots he visited was Utah; pictures can be seen at:  http://www.ambysoft.com/pics/utah/pics.html

We also have one of our consultants on-site in Eastern Africa.  If you any suggestions for places to visit – please let me know!

Final Thoughts

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That wraps it up for this month.  We have some exciting news about a new service offering from Ronin – I will be sending you more information about that soon.

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