Jacobson said the first fruits of his company’s (Ivar Jacobson Consulting LLC, of Alexandria, Va.) relationship with Microsoft will be through the delivery of the Essential Unified Process (Essential UP, a simplified or lighter-weight alternative to RUP), which is based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework and integrated with VSTS.
“Essential UP ()stands on all the experience we have from RUP, but also offers us a chance to have a fresh start,” Jacobson said. “We start in a new way because we’ve learned what works and what doesn’t work.”
BTW: IBM announced collaboration with Ivar Jacobson International earlier for the Beacon project (open source Eclipse Process Framework).