APRESS.COM : Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism : 9781590594643

Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism book cover

By Doug Rosenberg, Matt Stephens, Mark Collins-Cope
ISBN13: 978-1-59059-464-3
ISBN10: 1-59059-464-9
261 pp.
Published Feb 2005
Print Book Price: $54.99
eBook Price: $38.49

Agile Development with ICONIX Process: People, Process, and Pragmatism

...the authors were careful not to throw the (agile) baby out with the (XP) bathwater. The aim was to refactor the process not to destroy it completely.

— Pan Pantziarka, Application Development Advisor

This book describes how to apply ICONIX Process (a minimal, use case-driven modeling process) in an agile software project. Its full of practical advice for avoiding common �agile� pitfalls. Further, the book defines a core agile subsetso those of you who want to �get agile� need not spend years learning to do it. Instead, you can simply read this book and apply the core subset of techniques.

The book follows a real-life .NET/C# project from inception and UML modeling, to working codethrough several iterations. You can then go on-line to compare the finished product with the initial set of use cases.

The book also introduces several extensions to the core ICONIX Process, including combining Test-Driven Development (TDD) with up-front design to maximize both approaches (with examples using Java and JUnit). And the book incorporates persona analysis to drive the projects goals and reduce requirements churn.

Author Information

Doug Rosenberg

Doug Rosenberg is the founder and president of ICONIX Software Engineering, Inc. (www.iconixsw.com). Doug spent the first 15 years of his career writing code for a living before moving on to managing programmers, developing software design tools, and teaching object-oriented analysis and design.

Doug has been providing system development tools and training for nearly two decades, with particular emphasis on object-oriented methods. He developed a unified Booch/Rumbaugh/Jacobson design method in 1993 that preceded Rational’s UML by several years. He has produced more than a dozen multimedia tutorials on object technology, including COMPREHENSIVE COM and Enterprise Architect for Power Users, and is the coauthor of Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML (Addison-Wesley, 1999) and Applying Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML (Addison-Wesley, 2001), both with Kendall Scott, as well as Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (Apress, 2003) with Matt Stephens, Agile Development with ICONIX Process (Apress, 2005) with Matt Stephens and Mark Collins-Cope, and Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice with Matt Stephens (Apress, 2007).

A few years ago, Doug started a second business, an online travel website (www.VResorts.com) that features his virtual reality photography and some innovative mapping software.

Matt Stephens

Matt Stephens is a Java developer, project leader, and technical architect with a financial organization based in Central London. He’s been developing software commercially for over 15 years, and has led many agile projects through successive customer releases. He has spoken at a number of software conferences on OO development topics, and his writing appears regularly in a variety of software journals and websites, including The Register and ObjectiveView.

Matt is the coauthor of Extreme Programming Refactored: The Case Against XP (Apress, 2003) with Doug Rosenberg, Agile Development with ICONIX Process (Apress, 2005) with Doug Rosenberg and Mark Collins-Cope, and Use Case Driven Object Modeling with UML: Theory and Practice with Doug Rosenberg (Apress, 2007).

Catch Matt online at www.softwarereality.com.

Mark Collins-Cope

Mark Collins-Cope is Technical Director of Ratio Group Ltd., a UK-based company undertaking development, training, consultancy and recruitment in the object and component technology arena (see www.ratio.co.uk). Collins-Cope has undertaken many roles in his sixteen years in the software development industry, including analysis, design, architecture definition/technical lead, project management, lecturer, and writer. His key interests include use-case analysis, software architecture and component-based development and software process. Collins-Cope is also editor of ObjectiveView, a free object and component technology journal available in PDF format here.