Unifying the Booch and OMT OO Development Methods: Introduction to the Unified Method

The Booch and OMT methods represent the two most mature and widely used approaches to object-oriented analysis and design.Since their introduction 6 years ago both have evolved and from other methods. This talk describes the unification of the Booch and OMT methods by Grady Booch and Jim Rumbaugh leading to the recent public release of over 100 pages of documentation describing the Unified Method models and notation.THE aUTHORS ARE NOW AWAITING PUBLIC FEEDBACK BEFORE COMPLETING A FINAL VERSION OF THE METHOD NEXT YEAR. Contents: The Drive to Unification - why and how it happened The Unified Metamodel - the formal description of the models The Unified Notation - the new notation based on Booch and OMT Future Work - open problems that we are working on Roadmap - how users can get involved