The OPEN Process SpecificationIan Graham, Brian Henderson-Sellers and Houman Younessi(((following line is just a line on its own to highlight the OPEN acronym and explain what it stands for - pick out in some way the initial caps, O, P, E and N)))Object-oriented Process, Environment and NotationThe OPEN Process Specification describes a tailorable software development process (part of the OPEN methodological framework) that has been formulated to take account of the differing requirements of projects and provide a flexible framework into which project-specific factors may be incorporated.Here the reader will find a genuinely object-oriented, complete, detailed model of the whole process involved in developing both object-oriented and hybrid systems.
The model may be used in conjunction with any object-oriented method or notation, such as Coad, Firesmith, Odell, SOMA, or UML.This book shows how to use the OPEN process to organize, plan and manage both large- and small-scale object-oriented software development projects.
The framework for the OPEN process consists of interconnecting activities, which are represented as objects whose methods are the tasks needing to be accomplished.This model provides a strategy that enables professional software developers, project managers and students of software engineering to approach all kinds of software development projects and succeed in achieving timely delivery and high quality products.As well as an in-depth description of the important activities associated with a project, and comprehensive coverage of the kinds of tasks which need to be achieved for different projects, this book also contains: an extensive reference section containing a detailed description of each task recommended techniques that provide support for accomplishing each task a summary of the COMN Light Notation a foreword by Ed YourdonAbout the authorsIan Graham is an internationally recognized authority on Object Technology and is the developer of the SOMA object-oriented method, which was the chief source for the OPEN process' object model.
He has over 20 years' experience as a practitioner in the computing industry and is currently Vice President, Global Markets Technology with the Chase Manhattan Bank.
Ian was a founder member of the OPEN Consortium.His best selling books, Object-Oriented Methods and Migrating to Object Technology are also published under the Addison-Wesley imprint.Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology Applications and Research in Victoria, Australia, Professor of Computer Science (Object Technology) at Swinburne University and also a founder member of the OPEN Consortium.
He is the author of Object-Oriented Metrics and A Book of Object-Oriented Knowledge, which introduced the fountain model that was the inspiration for OPEN's approach to reuse management.
Brian is a regular contributor of articles to magazines and journals.Houman Younessi is an academic member of the School of Information Technology at Swinburne University of Technology and a member of the OPEN Consortium.
Previously the Managing Director of Australian Business Consultants Pty.
Ltd., Houman is an internationally recognized consultant, practitioner and educator specializing in organizational and information technology methods. "Im delighted to see the work of the OPEN Consortium come to the fruition represented by this book.Graham, Henderson-Sellers and Younessi have done a marvelous job in coordinating and distilling the work of over two dozen OO methodologists, and you have much to learn by digesting their explanation of this highly respectable third-generation OO method.
I highly commend it to you."Ed YourdonVisit ACM Press and Addison Wesley Longman on the World Wide Web athttp://info.acm.orghttp://www.awl-he.com/computinghttp://www.awl.com/cseng
