Methods
Intelligent Systems uses the following methods in connection with software development and project management.
Unified Process (UP)
Unified Process, IBM and Rational's version – altogether called Rational Unified Process (RUP) form the process which was developed and refined during the nineties and which today may be seen as reference model for all modern software developing processes. The process is described in the book "The Unified Software Development Process" by 'The Three Amigos' Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh and Ivar Jacobson (Addison-Wesley, 1999). The process was defined in addition to the three men's efforts with developing UML.
Activities in Unified Process and RUP are organized about 4 phases and 9 disciplins. The process motivates the phases to split up in iterations, so that e.g. The construction phase is devided into three minor construction iterations.
Agile Unified Process (AUP)
Agile Unified Process is a simplyfied and more flexible version of Rational Unified Process. Like RUP and UP it contains 4 phases. However, instead of 9 disciplins there are only 7 disciplins in AUP.
- Model
- Implementation
- Test
- Deployment
- Configuration Management
- Project Management
- Environment
Unified Modelling Language (UML)
UML is a modelling language used for the modelling and documentation of software. UML is standardized and maintained of the standard organization OMG. Today UML is used in most software developing processes and supported by many tools.
SCRUM
SCRUM er en fleksibel metode til projektledelse, som har vist sig at forbedre produktiviteten dramatisk i mange softwareudvilklings-teams. Metoden blev første gang anvendt hos Toyota og er efterfølgende dokumenteret af Takeuchi og Nonaka i "The New New Product Development Game" (Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1986).
SCRUM is a flexible process for project management which in many a software developing team has proved to improve productivity dramatically. The process was initiated by Toyota and subsequently described by Takeuchi og Nonaka in "The New New Product Development Game" (Harvard Business Review, Jan-Feb 1986.
