Publications

Ivar Jacobson International provided a three-day workshop on the Essence standard to the development team at a large multinational corporation specializing in Internet services. Learn about our Essence training and what the team thought.

This equipment vendor needed to move from a traditional waterfall approach to an agile way of working. They decided to engage with Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) to assist them with their agile transformation. IJI was chosen because of its expertise in large-scale agile transformation and its thought leadership. SEMAT's Essence and IJI's sustainable change model were central to the equipment provider's agile transformation strategy and success.

The Object Management Group® (OMG®), an international, open membership, not-for-profit technology standards consortium, released a new case study detailing Munich RE's successful application of the Essence standard with guidance provided from Ivar Jacobson International (IJI).

The term paradigm shift may be a bit overused these days; nevertheless, the kernel-based Essence approach to software engineering can quite reasonably be considered to be such a shift. It truly represents a profound change of viewpoint for the software-engineering community. In this paper, Ivar Jacobon and Ed Seidewitz explore what happened to to the promise of rigorous, disciplined, professional practices for software development, like those observed in other engineering disciplines and explain how the Essence standard is the answer.

SPV worked with Ivar Jacobson International's (IJI) certified partner XLENT to improve their way of working. SPV used IJI's Iterative Essentials practice to successfully deliver its Co-ordinated Pension Information Statement project on-time and on-budget.

Rule Financial standardizes on a company-wide delivery method, based on Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) essential agile practices.

Combining agile and SEMAT yields more advantages than either one alone. This paper discusses how two current popular movements complement one another to provide a powerful basis for software development.

In the same way that Google map shows you where you are, where you want to go, and the best way to get there when making a journey, SEMAT and Essence can do the same for teams of engineers developing software.

Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) is delighted to see that OMG has announced The Essence Kernel as a new industry standard for software engineering practices.

New article published on ACM Queue discusses two powerful complementary movements in software development.