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Title: The Unified Software Development Process by Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh ISBN: 0-201-57169-2 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 04 February, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.23 (35 reviews)
Rating: 2
Summary: Non-habit forming sleep aid
Comment: I had to buy this book for coursework. Now, I can't imagine authors with more knowledge of UML, etc. than these three guys. However, every chapter reads like a student paper in which the main intention is filling up space for credit. Don't get me wrong here. I read programming books for fun. I'm not one of those people who doesn't enjoy reading technical material. They just managed to take an already dry subject and dry it further. As you read through there are various references to other books, articles, whatever. It seems as though no original material was written for this book. So, here's my advice. Read those books. Don't read this one unless you need to catch up on some sleep.
Rating: 2
Summary: Lots of knowledge, poorly explained, poor illustrations
Comment: I suppose that students at our school are representative for the worldwide population of cs students. This book is not at all an easy introduction to the unified process. Having been introduced to the principles of ooad in an earlier semester, and thus already knowing something about ooad, we were introduced to Jacobsons RUP. Their book contains a lot of knowledge, but unfortunately the authors are a) either not very good at explaining their knowledge b) hiding the knowledge to make it seem more intelligent than it really is or c) have written the book for people who already knows, at least something, about the unified process, or the objectory process that preceeded RUP. If you are looking for good illustrations and examples on how to model a system with uml and the added classifiers using the the RUP, then I suggest that you don't start with this book. You'll be disappointed. Working on our first project using the RUP, hearing complaints from nearly all students over the lack of understandable examples, I bought Jacobsons's earlier book - Object Oriented Software Engineering. In that book I found much better and concrete examples, which were very helpfull in understanding their latest book (but that shouldn't be necessary!). If you are looking for an easy introduction to the unified process, conveniently having things explained for you in an easy to understand way, then this is definitely not the book for you. Very poor examples - or should I say lack of good and understandable examples. On the other hand, if you don't know so much about ooad, has lots of time, likes to crack nuts, read between the lines and guess about this and that, then this book is for you. - I admit that after having gone through the hard process, gaining experience in RUP through a practical project, I have come to like the process and has found it very usefull. The principles of the RUP are sound and good. Now that I have gone through the struggle, and knows it better, I'm glad that I have it on my shelf. It contains a lot of usefull, but unfortunately poorly explained, and illustrated, information.
Rating: 5
Summary: An excellent introduction book for software architect
Comment: If you want to be an archtiect or a lead programmer, read it and try to make sense of it. Otherwise, don't bother.
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Title: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide by Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, James Rumbaugh ISBN: 0201571684 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 30 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: The Unified Modeling Language Reference Manual (Addison-Wesley Object Technology Series) by James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson, Grady Booch ISBN: 020130998X Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 23 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $59.99 |
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Title: The Rational Unified Process: An Introduction (2nd Edition) by Philippe Kruchten ISBN: 0201707101 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 14 March, 2000 List Price(USD): $34.99 |
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Title: Software Project Management: A Unified Framework by Walker Royce ISBN: 0201309580 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional Pub. Date: 01 July, 1998 List Price(USD): $54.99 |
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Title: The Rational Unified Process Made Easy: A Practitioner's Guide to Rational Unified Process by Per Kroll, Philippe Kruchten ISBN: 0321166094 Publisher: Addison-Wesley Pub Co Pub. Date: 08 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $39.99 |
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