---
title: "Father of Rational Unified Process Goes to Redmond"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/24/father-of-rational-unified-process-goes-to-redmond.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2005/11/24/father-of-rational-unified-process-goes-to-redmond.html"
published: "2005-11-24T06:13:00"
updated: "2005-11-24T06:13:00"
tags: ["Project Management"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "This is pretty big. \"Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft Solutions…"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# Father of Rational Unified Process Goes to Redmond

By Roy Osherove November 24, 2005 In [Project Management](https://osherove.com/blog/category/project-management)

**Historical article** · Originally published November 24, 2005; technical details may be outdated.

[This is](http://devhawk.net/PermaLink,guid,ffdb7145-6ab2-4433-95e7-034f620b544e.aspx) pretty big.

_"Microsoft has tapped Ivar Jacobson, known as one of the fathers of the popular Rational Unified Process (RUP), to lead an effort to deliver a lightweight unified process to the Microsoft Solutions Framework._

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Jacobson said the first fruits of his company's relationship with Microsoft will be through the delivery of the Essential Unified Process (Essential UP), which is based on the Microsoft Solutions Framework and integrated with VSTS. "

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