Presentation: Iterative Software Project Management
This presentation was given at a Software Engineering Colloquim at Philips Medical in November 2006. Organizations all over the world apply the RUP, but in many occasions unsuccesfull. The focus of management is still on producing documents, rather than tangible software. This presentation proposes iterative software development concepts and techniques from the viewpoint of (software) project management with the goal to provide insights on iterative software development process and project planning and tracking.

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Presentation: How RUP Supports Project Portfolio Management
This presentation was given at the Rational User Conference in July 2004. The RUP is a single-project development process. Organizations executing multiple projects in parallel are faced with issues not currently addressed by the RUP. The presentation shows how a European investment firm applied the RUP principles at the enterprise level to successfully complete a project portfolio.

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Presentation: Recent Changes to the RUP Business Modeling Discipline
The IBM Rational Unified Process® is continuously updated to reflect the field experiences of business modeling practitioners and the changing software development industry. IBM Rational and Empulsys signed an agreement in 2002 to jointly develop the RUP 2003 business modeling content. This session was presented at the Rational User Conference in August 2003 and offers an overview of these changes.

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Article: Project Planning Best Practices
This article takes Kruchten’s and West’s work on RUP® project planning one step further. The practical how-to approach should provide both novice and experienced project managers with a unique approach to juggling planning variables, resulting in a solid and reliable project plan. Furthermore, the techniques described in this article can be applied at different levels to different kinds of projects, with similar results.

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White paper: The New RUP Business Modeling Discipline
The RUP® business modeling discipline describes the process, roles, activities and artifacts required to understand, improve or re-engineer a business. The discipline has been updated to better support common business modeling approaches and regards business modeling as having a wider area of application than the current focus on software development projects. This whitepaper describes the new discipline and provides some practical insight regarding the intent and usage of the various elements described. For more information regarding the collaboration between Empulsys and IBM Rational Software, click here.

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Presentation: The Seven Habits of Effective Iterative Development
This presentation was given at the Rational User Group of South Africa in March 2003 and presents a framework for managing iterative software development projects. The presentation is based on the Rational Edge article of the same name. In the article and this presentation, Stephen Covey’s The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People are mapped to project management best practices.

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Presentation: RUP Business Modeling Case Study
This is part of a presentation given at the Rational User Group of South Africa in March 2003. The case study provides insight into how the Rational Unified Process® was applied to a business modeling project. A number of complex and interrelated challenges facing the organization in question were overcome by modeling the enteprise from a holistic approach.

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Article: The Seven Habits of Effective Iterative Development
Using Stephen Covey’s enormously successful The Seven Habits of Effective People as a framework, this article describes how each habit can be applied to project management in an iterative environment. The result is a conceptual project management framework that is based upon how personal action can affect the success or failure of a project. This article is a must read for all project managers coming to grips with iterative software development.

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Article: Introducing the RUP into an Organization
When an organization is considering a new process or tool introduction, there are a number of issues to consider: Which combination of process and tools is best? What is the most suitable implementation approach? Is the organization fully committed to the success of this project? What is the organization’s capacity for change? This article examines these issues based on our experience with introducing the Rational Unified Process® and Rational Suite® in both small and large organizations.

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Article: Using the Zachman Framework to Assess the Rational Unified Process
Since its publication in 1987, the Zachman Framework has provided organizations with an effective way of assessing the completeness of software development process models, in terms of an organization’s information needs. This article provides a Zachman-Framework-based analysis of the Rational Unified Process®, a software development process model that describes a us

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