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  People often ask me why you would need a modeling tool to do the requirements job. They often argue that requirements is mostly text, so using a wordprocessor would do the job. And indeed, when you look at a RUP Vision document, or examine RUP Use Case specifications, 98% of the content is text. Requirements are often written in ...

I moved my new blog to http://hij2mc.wordpress.com/.(hij2mc = how I jump to my conclusions, I continue the name of the blog) I used Blogger some time but changed to Wordpress as it offers better ways to organize your content. The RSS Feed for my blog is: https://hij2mc.wordpress.com/feed On some readers, like RSS Bandit, you have to uncheck ...

This night I set up a new weblog, How I jump to my conclusions with Blogger at Blogspot.com, since I'm switching from my current employer Infosupport to Getronics PinkRoccade. Unfortunately, Getronics apparently does not (yet?) have a company blogsite. I really enjoyed blogging at Infosupport and heard that my (mostly) non-technical posts ...

Forget everything you learned the last 20 years and get back on track.   Waterfall 2006 - International Conference on Sequential Development   Including valuable tutorials from Martin, Cockburn, Beck, Kroll, Kern and many others. Read about the WUP!   (Tip from Marike)    

JOT: Journal of Object Technology - Traceability Management through Use Cases, N. Benocomo and A. Matteo   This paper proposes and illustrates how to specify a clear traceability from the Use Case model through Analysis, Design, Deployment and Implementation models.

JOT: Journal of Object Technology - Formalism, technique and rigour in Use Case, Bruce Anderson   Despite the ubiquity of use case modelling as a concept, there are very many ways to approach it as a practical activity. One key to success on a project is to make concrete and public decisions on many aspects of structure, technique and method. We ...

The combination of the IBM Rational Unified Process Update for Service Oriented Architecture (RUP Update for SOA) and the Rational Software Architect implementation of the UML Profile for Software Services provides both a modeling approach as well as a set of best practices for the architecture and design of solutions based upon a services ...

Martin Fowler gets this question lots of times: ''What do you think of SOA (Service Oriented Architecture)?''   He thinks it's a question that's pretty much impossible to answer because SOA means so many different things to different people. Read his article on Service Oriented Ambiguity.  

Scott Ambler lists 35 modeling artifact types with examples. He indicates if the technique is simple enough for stakeholders to learn, whether it is usually a paper-based artifact, whether he suggests creating it on a whiteboard, and what type of software he would consider using to create and maintain it.    Don't jump to conclusions reading the ...

More and more tools with UML2 support are emerging. Currently, however, UML 1.x is still dominating the tools market. Some tools are listed on modelbased.net - UML tools. Some arguments on NOT using UML2 and the (fierce) reaction of Andrew Watson (technical director at OMG) on that (scroll halfway the article for Andrew's reaction) are ...