It's obvious you are a freakin manager judging by the level of buzzwords
Nope.
judging by the level of buzzwords in that damn post Buzzwords. Oh, you mean like: Agile, Waterfall, Ceremony, Government and RUP? The only "buzz" word in that list is Agile. But, your post has made my point extremely clear; most developers have no concept, nor do they care, about good software development methods and anybody who does is immediately pegged as a manager who has no idea how to develop software.
Let me ask you: How would you propose talking about "Software Process" without using your so-called, "buzzwords?"
RUP is a step up from the Waterfall model, but it's certainly not the greatest thing out there.
It's obvious you have a limited view on what the RUP process is... RUP is in the Agile category of develpment processes and can be tailored from basically no ceremony (design documents, traceability, etc.) to high-levels of ceremony. The problem with RUP is that it's been heavily used in the Government sector, which historically has been at the far-right on the ceremony scale; many people have a vast misconception that RUP is "just a step-up" from the waterfall model. When in fact, RUP is not even in the same category as the Waterfall model.
I believe IBM releasing the RUP standards to the Eclipse project is going to go a lot of good in getting RUPs current "label" turned around from being just a "modified waterfall" method, to being known as a full-blown Agile method.
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It's obvious you are a freakin manager judging by the level of buzzwords
Nope.
judging by the level of buzzwords in that damn post
Buzzwords. Oh, you mean like: Agile, Waterfall, Ceremony, Government and RUP? The only "buzz" word in that list is Agile. But, your post has made my point extremely clear; most developers have no concept, nor do they care, about good software development methods and anybody who does is immediately pegged as a manager who has no idea how to develop software.
Let me ask you: How would you propose talking about "Software Process" without using your so-called, "buzzwords?"
RUP is a step up from the Waterfall model, but it's certainly not the greatest thing out there.
It's obvious you have a limited view on what the RUP process is... RUP is in the Agile category of develpment processes and can be tailored from basically no ceremony (design documents, traceability, etc.) to high-levels of ceremony. The problem with RUP is that it's been heavily used in the Government sector, which historically has been at the far-right on the ceremony scale; many people have a vast misconception that RUP is "just a step-up" from the waterfall model. When in fact, RUP is not even in the same category as the Waterfall model.
I believe IBM releasing the RUP standards to the Eclipse project is going to go a lot of good in getting RUPs current "label" turned around from being just a "modified waterfall" method, to being known as a full-blown Agile method.