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Paper - The Essential Unified Process (EssUP) - New Life for the Unified Process

Dave West reviews the Essential Unified Process EssUP in this paper entitled "The Essential Unified Process (EssUP) - New Life for the Unified Process"

I’ve recently had the opportunity to review IJC’s new Essential Unified Process and am pleased to report EssUP provides a fresh approach to software process improvement.  It isn’t surprising that IJC should provide innovation in the space since its founder Ivar Jacobson is the father of the Use Cases, and the Unified Process, and Jaczones Waypointer.  The Essential Unified Process is much simpler, and much more flexible and extensible than previous expressions of UP. It is presented with a light weight and friendly approach which makes learning the process easy, some might say even agile  Although the Essential Unified Process is a dramatic improvement to UP, the ideas underlying it are very useful to describe basically any process.  The approach is practice-centric instead of process-role centered.