Philippe Kruchten

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Philippe Kruchten is a Canadian software engineer, and Professor of Software Engineering at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada, known as Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software, and developer of the 4+1 view model.

Contents 1 Life and work 2 Publications 3 References 4 External links

[edit] Life and work

Philippe Kruchten holds a degree in mechanical engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon in France, and a doctorate in computer science from the French Institute of Telecommunications.

He has over 30 years of experience in the development of large, software-intensive systems in the areas of telecommunication, defense, aerospace, transportation, and software development tools.^[1] He was formerly the Director of Process Development (RUP) at Rational Software. He then held the same title when Rational was acquired by IBM in 2003. He is currently a Professor of Software Engineering at University of British Columbia in Vancouver, Canada.

Much of Kruchten’s work has involved the Rational Unified Process. The RUP is a detailed software development process framework. It was developed from years of experience from many companies and many projects. It is now available as a web-based product. The RUP is not a one-size-fits-all process; rather it is a framework that can be customized to fit the size and needs of a particular software development organization. It allows for customization with the use of "plugins" which allows your organization to tailor the RUP. For example you can customize your process by importing a plugin for a type of standard software technology that you are using.

[edit] Publications

• 1998. The Rational Unified Process-An Introduction, Addison-Wesley
• 2003. Rational Unified Process Made Easy-A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP, with Per Kroll, Addison-Wesley.

Articles, a selection:

• 2002. Agility with the RUP [1] The Rational Unified Process was designed with agility and flexibility in mind.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Philippe Kruchten homepage
• Kruchten Engineering Services, Ltd.

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