Philippe Kruchten

Philippe Kruchten (* 1952 ) is a French computer scientist who has worked in Canada. He developed the Rational Unified Process ( RUP), a process for software development, and the concept of 4 1 views of software architecture.

Kruchten studied from 1975 to 1978 at the École Centrale de Lyon and the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. Subsequently, he worked among others at Telic - Alcatel as a software designer. He received his doctorate from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications in 1986. From 1987 to 2003 he worked for Rational Software in Vancouver. There he was since 1996 Director of Process Development and developed the RUP. Even after the sale of the company to IBM, he kept holding his position. Since 2004 he has been Professor of Software Engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Writings

• Le langage de programmation Pascal. Eyrolles Éditions, Paris 1978.
• Anne Kruchten: Manuel de référence du langage de programmation ADA. Eyrolles Éditions, Paris, 1982.
• The rational unified process. ( An introduction ). Addison -Wesley, Reading MA, inter alia, 1998, ISBN 0-201-60459-0 ( German: .. The rational unified process an introduction Addison -Wesley, Munich, etc. 1999, ISBN 3-8273-1543-3 ), ( translated into 10 languages).
• Pierre N. Robillard, Patrick D' Astous: Software Engineering Process with the UPEDU. Addison -Wesley, Boston, MA et al 2003, ISBN 0-201-75454-1.
• With Per Kroll: The Rational Unified Process Made Easy. A Practitioner's Guide to the RUP. Addison -Wesley, Boston, MA et al 2003, ISBN 0-321-16609-4.