Ivar Jacobson Live in New York City
Ivar Jacobson comes back to .NET Rocks, this time as a special guest on the Road Trip. He talks about Microsoft's re-embrace of UML, his work on Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT), and tells a few Bill Gates stories as well.
Guests:
Ivar Jacobson
Dr. Ivar Jacobson is a father of components and component architecture, use cases, the Unified Modelling Language and the Rational Unified Process. He has contributed to modern business modelling and aspect-oriented software development. Lately he has been working on a smarter way to deal with methods and tools in a superlight and agile way. He has developed a practice concept that is now being adopted by both developers and tool vendors. Right now he is working with a team of software leaders with the mission to build a widely-adopted, strong foundation under software engineering. The initiative is called Software Engineering Method And Theory (SEMAT).
He is the principal author of six influential and best-selling books.
Ivar Jacobson is the chairman of Ivar Jacobson International which has subsidiaries in the US, UK, China, Singapore, Australia, Sweden and Canada.