- Led development of IBM Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering (RUPSE).
- Introduced variance in program variables as a way to measure and reason about risk in development and service delivery programs. Concept led to new, disciplined ways for organizations to balance development risk and value.
- Key player on OMG and INCOSE committees to generate a Request for Proposal for the System Modeling Language (SysML).
- Founding member of SysML Partners, industry consortium generating most of the SysML specification.
Biography
Dr. Murray Cantor is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and the governance solutions lead on the IBM Rational Software CTO team. His areas of expertise include IT and development governance, software and system engineering processes, and system development management. Murray was the lead architect of RUP SE, the extension of the Rational Unified Process for system and enterprise engineering. He is the author of Object-Oriented Project Management with UML (John Wiley 1998) and Software Leadership (Addison-Wesley 2001), and has been a system architect, team lead, project manager, development product manager, architecture manager, program manager, and lead consultant. He developed and currently teaches a course on Development Governance at Stevens Institute in New Jersey.
Books
- Object-Oriented Project Management with UML
- Software Leadership: A Guide to Successful Software Development
Recent articles
IBM Systems Journal
- Software and system development with the IBM Measured Capability Improvement Framework: A business process for smarter companies and smarter devices (Per Kroll, co-author) (1.2MB)
- How to measure the return on investment for software and systems development (2.39MB)
- L. Balmelli, D. Brown, M. Cantor, and M. Mott, "Model driven systems development."
The Rational Edge (on IBM developerWorks)
- "Operational IT Governance" (with John Sanders)
- "Leading Modern Systems Development" (198KB)
- "Hardware/software co-development using a model-driven systems development approach - Part II: Illustrating the solution"
- "Governing the business process of software and systems development" (493KB)
- "Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering: Part 1 - Introducing RUP SE Version 2.0" (245KB)
- "Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering: Part 2 - System Architecture" (359KB)
- "Rational Unified Process for Systems Engineering: Part 3 - Requirements Analysis and Design" (245KB)
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