Philippe Kruchten

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

Kruchten studied from 1975 to 1978 at the École Centrale de Lyon and the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications . He then worked a. a. at Télic-Alcatel as a software designer . He received his doctorate in 1986 from the École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications. From 1987 to 2003 he worked for Rational Software in Vancouver. There he was Director of Process Development since 1996 and developed the RUP. Even after the company was sold to IBM, he retained his position. Since 2004 he has been professor for software engineering at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.

Fonts

The language of programming Pascal. Éditions Eyrolles, Paris 1978.
with Anne Kruchten: Manuel de référence du langage de programmation ADA. Éditions Eyrolles, Paris, 1982.
The rational unified process. (An introduction). Addison-Wesley, Reading MA et al. 1998, ISBN 0-201-60459-0 (German: The rational unified process. An introduction. Addison-Wesley, Munich et al. 1999, ISBN 3-8273-1543-3 ), (translated into 10 Languages).
with 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 .

personal data
SURNAME	Kruchten, Philippe
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	French computer scientist, professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia
DATE OF BIRTH	1952