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Ivar Jacobson,
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Today my employer arranged for Ivar Jacobson to come in and give us a short talk. He was a great speaker and very entertaining. He provided some very sensible advice regarding processes, which was that most processes start as something good but then grow to incorporate all the good ideas that come out afterwards. So basically his EssUP (Essential Unified Process) is about concentrating less on the whole process and more on the Good practices that it contains. In fact in enables you to drive the practices you want, just get out there and start doing some of them now.
For me personally I can relate to this with the introduction of Unit Testing for my teams code. We did it, and proved it worked. However our adoption rate outside of our team is low, (and possibly only high in my team because I keep pushing for more tests all the time). Oh well, better get the CruiseControl.Net coverage reporting working.