I bought Larman’s “Applying UML and Patterns” about a month ago, but had hard time getting to actually read it. This is my first note for a long time – I hope there will be more to follow.<\/p>\n
He is promoting the [Rational] Unified Process (UP), but he is quite good in avoiding holy wars. He says (p. 18-19) that the UP is only an example, and you need to use some<\/i> process to illustrate the techniques. Also, he says that the UP “combines commonly accepted best practices” and that the author “encourages clients to understand and adopt a blend of useful techniques from several methods, rather than a dogmatic ‘my method is better than your method’ mentality”.<\/p>\n
This may be just a way to sweet talk opponents and play down the disagreements, but I do like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"