Philippe Kruchten

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Philippe Kruchten 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 Philippe Kruchten’s work has involved the Rational Unified Process. The RUP is basically a huge document that outlines 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

The Rational Unified Process-An Introduction, Addison-Wesley, 2003 (1st edition in 1998) (translated in German, Japanese, French, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, Portuguese, Korean, Russian)

Rational Unified Process Made Easy-A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP, with Per Kroll, Addison-Wesley, 2003 (translated in Japanese, French, Chinese)