A few weeks ago, I had the honor of attending a talk by Ivar Jacobson on his new Essential Unified Process (EUP) . It was Jacobson, along with Grady Booch and James Rumbaugh , that developed UML and the Rational Unified Process. At the core of EUP is...

For years, we software developers fell into the beautiful deception of Moore’s Law – that temptingly wonderful promise that transistor counts would double every 18 months and that our software would run faster and faster with no work on our part. And...