To support our training, coaching and consulting services Ivar Jacobson International offers simple but effective agile project management tools and best practices. Building on decades of software process improvement expertise, we’ve developed a set of proven software tools to help your software development team work more effectively and efficiently, producing high-performing teams equipped to meet the needs of the business with superior quality and delivery.
A comprehensive software development toolkit
Our technologies support the adoption and execution of a practice-based software development approach. That approach is enabled by a practice framework, called EssWork, that supports the ongoing development and execution of existing practices as well as the authoring of new practices. It also allows teams to combine selected software practices to build agility within a specific project and way of working. It is a tool for combining multiple practices into a cohesive, flexible, and effective way of working. With EssWork’s enhanced practice framework, you can add agility to all aspects of your projects. Fine-tune the level of formality you require in everything from work products to delivery mechanisms to team collaboration.
Our Essential Modeler tool, which is available free of charge, allows you to create UML use cases and class models. Designed for business and systems analysts, Essential Modeler reduces the complexity and clutter common to many UML modeling tools—even while offering the full array of expected features and improving on many of those provided in other tools.
The Essential Practices is a collection of practices that together form the essential knowledge of a complete software development lifecycle. This practice-centric approach to software development incorporates and builds on established best practices. The practices in EssUP integrate successful principles from the unified process, agile and process maturity camps, capitalizing on their different capabilities: structure, agility and process improvement.
The combination of our software consulting expertise with our software practices and technologies allows us to help software development organizations significantly reduce their costs and time to market.