The OPEN Process Framework: An Introduction [Paperback]

"[The authors] have done an excellent job of bringing forth the power and the flexibility of this most useful framework in an easy to read and understand introduction. Although it has been written to be an introductory text in OPF, I found [it] also readily useable as a handbook for initial process definition, an accessible treatment of important issues in software process design, and a textbook in OPF."

Houman Younessi

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

The OPEN Process Framework provides a template for generating flexible, yet disciplined, processes for developing high-quality software and system applications within a predictable schedule and budget. Using this framework as a starting point, you can create and tailor a process to meet the specific needs of the project.

If you are a project manager, process engineer or developer evaluating or thinking of adopting the OPEN Process Framework, this book is for you.

You will:

• Learn what the OPEN Process Framework is and how its use differs from specific development methods
• Master the basic concepts of the OPEN Process Framework and understand their structure and interrelationships
• Learn how to instantiate the OPEN Process Framework to construct a process that meets the needs of specific projects and organizations

"Are you involved with software development, requirements engineering, design, or domain modeling? Then you’ve used and no doubt modified a software engineering process. At last there’s a book with a comprehensive approach to creating S.E. processes. The OPEN Process Framework is a modern, object-oriented approach for creating and tuning a process perfectly suited to your particular job. This book lays out the whole OPF framework in a thorough, authoritative, and accessible way. I’ve been waiting for a book like this for a long time. Highly recommended!"

Thomas B. Passin,

Principal Systems Engineer, Mitretek Systems

"[The authors] have done an excellent job of bringing forth the power and the flexibility of this most useful framework in an easy to read and understand introduction. Although it has been written to be an introductory text in OPF, I found [it] also readily useable as a handbook for initial process definition, an accessible treatment of important issues in software process design, and a textbook in OPF."

Houman Younessi

Associate Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

About the authors:

Donald Firesmith

is President of Firesmith Consulting where he provides high-impact consulting and training in object development. He has worked exclusively with object technology since 1984. During this time, he has fulfilled many roles including director of data processing, technical project leader, requirements engineer, architect, designer, programmer, tester, process engineer, configuration manager, data manager, quality engineer, and trainer.

The author of five books on object technology, including Documenting a Complete Java Application using OPEN, he is internationally known as an object methodologist specializing in the areas of project management, requirements engineering, system and software architecting, and testing. For the last four years he has concentrated on web development including business and technical strategy, digital branding, and website architecting.

Brian Henderson-Sellers is Director of the Centre for Object Technology

Applications & Research and Professor of Information Systems at the University of Technology, Sydney. He is author of nine books on object technology and is well-known for his work in Object Oriented methodologies and metamodelling (MOSES, COMMA and OPEN) and in Object Oriented metrics. He was recently voted number 3 in the Who's Who of Object Technology (Handbook of Object Technology, 1999, Appendix N) and, in July 2001, was awarded a DSc by the University of London for his extensive and significant contributions to object-oriented methodologies.