Ivar Jacobson
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Ivar Hjalmar Jacobson (born 1939) is a
Biography
Ivar Jacobson was born in
After his master's degree, Jacobson joined Ericsson and worked in R&D on computerized switching systems AKE [1] and AXE including PLEX. After his PhD thesis in April 1987, he started Objective Systems with Ericsson as a major customer. A majority stake of the company was acquired by Ericsson in 1991, and the company was renamed Objectory AB. Jacobson developed the software method Object-Oriented Software Engineering (OOSE) published 1992, which was a simplified version of the commercial software process Objectory (short for Object Factory).
In October, 1995, Ericsson divested Objectory to Rational Software[2] and Jacobson started working with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh, known collectively as the Three Amigos.
When IBM bought Rational in 2003, Jacobson decided to leave, after he stayed on until May 2004 as an executive technical consultant.
In mid-2003 Jacobson formed Ivar Jacobson International (IJI) [3] which operates across three continents with offices in the UK, the US, Sweden, Switzerland, China, and Singapore.
Work
Ericsson
In 1967 at Ericsson, Jacobson proposed the use of
Jacobson saw a need for blueprints for software development. He was one of the original developers of the
At Objectory he also invented use cases as a way to specify functional software requirements.[6][7]
Rational Software
At Rational, Jacobson and his friends,
Essential Unified Process
In November 2005, Jacobson announced the
Ivar has described EssUP as a "super light and agile" RUP.[
EssWork
Standing on the experience of EssUP Ivar and his team, in particular Ian Spence and Pan Wei Ng, developed EssWork starting in 2006. EssWork is a framework for working with methods. It is based on a kernel of universal elements always prevalent in software development endeavors. On top of the kernel some fifteen practices have been defined. A team can create their own method by composing practices.
SEMAT and Essence
In November 2009, Jacobson, Bertrand Meyer and Richard Soley ("the Troika") started an initiative called SEMAT (Software Engineering Method and Theory) to seek to develop a rigorous, theoretically basis for software engineering practice, and to promote its wide adoption by industry and academia. SEMAT has been inspired by the work at IJI, but with a fresh new start. Essence, an OMG standard since November 2014, is the end result.[8] Methods are seen by Essence as combining software engineering and development techniques. It seeks to make it possible to separate practices from methods, making it easier for them to be combined and reused to create methods that are best suited to the situation.[9]
Publications
Jacobson has published several books and articles,[10] a selection:
- 1992. Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach (ACM Press) With Magnus Christerson, Patrik Jonsson & Gunnar Overgaard. Addison-Wesley, 1992, ISBN 0-201-54435-0
- 1994. The Object Advantage: Business Process Reengineering With Object Technology (ACM Press). With M. Ericsson & A. Jacobson. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-201-42289-1
- 1997. Software Reuse: Architecture, Process, and Organization for Business Success (ACM Press). With Martin Griss & Patrik Jonsson. Addison-Wesley, 1997, ISBN 0-201-92476-5
- 1999. The Unified Software Development Process. With ISBN 0-201-57169-2
- 2004. The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (2nd Edition). With ISBN 0-321-24562-8
- 2004. Aspect-Oriented Software Development With Use Cases (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series). With Pan-Wei Ng. Addison-Wesley, ISBN 0-321-26888-1
- 2005. The Unified Modeling Language User Guide (2nd Edition). With ISBN 0-321-26797-4
- 2013. The Essence of Software Engineering - Applying the SEMAT Kernel. With Pan-Wei Ng, Paul Mc Mahon, Ian Spence and Svante Lidman. Addison-Wesley, 2013, ISBNISBN 978-0321885951
- 2019. The Essentials of Modern Software Engineering - Free the Practices from the Method prisons. With Harold "Bud" Lawson, Pan-Wei Ng, Paul Mc Mahon and Michael Goedicke. ACM Books & Morgan & Claypool publishers, 2019, ISBN 978-1-947487-24-6
References
- ^ "The Ericsson story - Ericsson". 18 August 2016.
- ^ DBMS Interview - October 1996 Archived 2008-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Home". ivarjacobson.com.
- ISBN 978-3-642-23314-2.
- S2CID 14451600.
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- ^ "About the Essence Specification Version 1.2". www.omg.org. Retrieved 2020-08-10.
- S2CID 243575665.
- ^ Ivar Jacobson at DBLP Bibliography Server