Using the Essential Unified Process with Visual Studio Team

System

Ian Spence and Craig Lucia

Agenda

• Introduction• A new paradigm with several exciting innovations:

– Practice separation – Practice user experience– Practice smartness

• Innovations that can help you today:– Making process adoption easy / making VSTS adoption easy– Demonstration

• Final words

What is the Essential Unified Process?

• The first Next Generation Process• A pre-built assembly of 8 core practices• The foundation for the creation of your own processes• A framework for the addition of further practices

The Unified Process

Ericsson Approach

Objectory Process

Late ’60s

‘87 –’96

‘97 –’98

IBM Rational Unified Process

Good Software

‘99 –’05

Building on our heritage

Essential Unified Process – Key characteristics

Free

Open Source

Adaptive

Easy to Use

Agile

Lightweight

Universal

Extensible

Scalable

Complete

Sufficient

Comprehensive

Recursive

• A complete, useable software development process• Delivered in the way that suits you on the platform that

you use• That’s easy to adopt and tailor

Iterative

Component

Architecture Use Case

Product

Bringing more power and flexibility to VSTS

• VSTS unites the team around a single way-of-working

• VSTS is very good tool for tracking and managing work

• On top of this, we can add MORE capabilities:

– Practice separation

– Process composition

– Dynamic task generation

• It is not just the work items that we define, it is the way they are used

Enhancing Visual Studio Team System

+

More than just a Unified Process….

…the first of a new generation of software development processes.

Agenda

• Introduction• A new paradigm with several exciting innovations:

– Practice separation – Practice user experience– Practice smartness

• Innovations that can help you today:– Making process adoption easy / making VSTS adoption easy– Demonstration

• Final words

A Next Generation Process is not monolithic

From the successes in modern software

development

Agile Methods Camp

Unified Process Camp

Process Maturity Camp

In the future, an ever present but invisible process

Process becomes second nature

A new paradigm

Practice is a First Class Citizen

the unit of adoption, planning and execution of process

Practice Separation

Practice User

Experience

Practice Smartness

And the innovations of

a new paradigm

A Next Generation Process is not monolithic

From the successes in modern software

development

Agile Methods Camp

Unified Process Camp

Process Maturity Camp

In the future, an ever present but invisible process

Process becomes second nature

A new paradigm

Practice is a First Class Citizen

the unit of adoption, planning and execution of process

Practice Separation

Practice User

Experience

Practice Smartness

And the innovations of

a new paradigm

NEW

Balancing the practitioners’ view and the process engineers’ view

Making the Essential Unified Process easy to use, easy to adopt and even more effective

I need to get things done

ProcessEngineer Practitioner

There must be uniformity and

consistency

Agenda

• Introduction• A new paradigm with several exciting innovations:

– Practice separation – Practice user experience– Practice smartness

• Innovations that can help you today:– Making process adoption easy / making VSTS adoption easy– Demonstration

• Final words

What is a Practice?

Pragmatics• A Practice is a set of activities to give value to a particular stakeholder of a

software organization

• A Practice – explicit knowledge waiting to be put into action– A set of compatible process elements that can be added to a process to address a

risk or extend an existing practice– A practice includes its own verification providing it with a clear beginning and an

end, and allowing it to be independently applied

• Our practices are supplied as a set of cards and guidelines defining a way of doing something

More precisely• A use-case module in our AOSD book

– It has a beginning and an end– It may be a peer practice or extend an existing practice

The Practices in the Essential Unified Process

TechnicalPractices

Social Engineering Practices

Process Practices

Organizational Practices

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Building a process eco-system around 8 Essential Practices

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PSP / TSP Pair Programming

Social Engineering Practices

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Process Practices

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Management

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Practices can be applied individually

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Use Case

A team starting out with use cases

Iterative ComponentUse Case

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A small team doing maintenance

Existing Local PracticesPRINCE2

ComponentArchitecture Use Case

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Title

A large formal project

Iterative

All within VSTS

PracticePracticePracticePractice

Add

Instantiate only the practices you need within VSTS.

Incrementally compose the process and the project schema.

Practice BrowserPractice Explorer

For Browsing Authoring, and

Composing Practices

Agenda

• Introduction• A new paradigm with several exciting innovations:

– Practice separation – Practice user experience– Practice smartness

• Innovations that can help you today:– Making process adoption easy / making VSTS adoption easy– Demonstration

• Final words

Today, process descriptions are designed for process engineers

• Usually presented in books or web pages.– That nobody reads

• Usually out-of-date– And not what’s actually done

• Not accessible or easy to work with– And don’t contain the advice you need

It’s a law of nature:Most people don’t read books,

especially long process descriptions.

Apply card game metaphor for practice descriptions

• A card contains concise description of things to produce and things to do, etc.

• A practice is a set of cards

• A team/individual works on a set of instance cards

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Reference books

Intelligent Agents

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Process Guidance