Five Minutes

August 14, 2001 - IconMedialab

The IconProcess.com site is directed towards IconMedialab clients that may be interested in using our process in their own development organization. It gives them the opportunity to get background information about the process, as well as directing them to potential mentoring and training services that some IconMedialab Offices can provide.

IconMedialab's St. Louis office proudly announces the release of the IconProcess and launch of www.iconprocess.com, the product's corresponding website. As a partner with the Rational Corporation, IconMedialab developed the IconProcess as an e-business extension to the Rational Unified Process.

In a collaborative effort with IconMedialab and using the Rational Unified Process framework, a core development team created the integrated process. Comprised of practitioners across multiple disciplines, the IconMedialab team mined their most successful projects for best practices, sample artifacts, and lessons learned. With guidance from Rational Software's, Dr. Ivar Jacobson the legendary creator of Use Cases and Objectory (the precursor to the Rational Unified Process) and one of the (three) original designers of the Unified Modeling Language ("UML"), as well as feedback from practitioners around the world, the team developed and refined its own version of the Rational Unified Process, and the IconProcess became reality. The IconProcess team was led by Kathy Marshak, who spearheaded the technology discipline, Marc Borkan, for the user interface disciplines, and Gregg Fisher, overseeing the business strategy discipline. Contributors also included Anna Andersson and Larry Gould in New York and Ingela Persson in Stockholm. Sponsors for the IconProcess project included Bjoern Westerberg, Gustaf Horwitz, Francesco Cara, Tom Nicholson and Else-Marie Oestling.

The IconProcess website would not have been possible without the assistance of Kathy Marshak- Project Leader, Andres Sulleiro-Information Architecture, Scott Lix-web development, Jeffrey Blais-Creative Director, and Julia Bramer-Director of Marketing St. Louis.

The website contains a detailed overview of the IconProcess, FAQs, team contributions and bios, and more. For more information on the IconProcess, http://www.iconprocess.com, or for information on how to market the IconProcess from your IconMedialab location, please contact Julia Bramer, Director of Marketing, or Lou Hawn, Managing Director in St Louis at + 1 636 530 7776.