dmv wrote:

I'm starting a new job next month that apparently extensively uses Rational Rose. I haven't used it before, and that wasn't the great appeal of the job itself... but hopefully it won't be too bad. It is a SCRUM shop with my project manager being someone who teaches software engineering methodology at CMU as a side thing, so if anything it will be a great contrast to the grad-school research programming I've been doing most recently.

I wish you the very best of luck.. I hadn't heard of SCRUM 'til just this minute, but it seems somewhat compelling. As for Rational, the concepts of the RUP seem sound, but the implementation of the toolset is so poor that I can't help but consider it an indictment of the process too. Rather than getting out of my way, I feel like the tools are constantly interjecting themselves. I have considered that this is just because our team hasn't engaged the process sufficiently, so we're colliding in places. This is my hope.

DevShop got very nice reviews on TechCrunch.

Yeah, seems like people that have seen it are pleased. I don't expect to ever get the chance to really find out unless I strike out on my own and start a software company, however. More's the pity.

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