Object-oriented Process, Environment, and Notation (OPEN) is the premier third-generation, public domain, full lifecycle, process-focussed, methodological approach that was designed for the development of software intensive applications, particularly object-oriented and component-based developments. OPEN was developed and is maintained by the not-for-profit OPEN Consortium, an international group of over 35 methodologists, academics, CASE tool vendors and developers. OPEN was initially created by the merger of earlier methods: MOSES, SOMA, Firesmith, Synthesis and more recently enhanced by state of the art ideas from BON, Ooram, UML etc.
For more information about the OPEN Process Framework, see the OPEN Consortium's official OPEN Website.
The following books about OPEN are available from your local booksellers, from the publisher, or via online bookstores such as Amazon:
The OPEN Process Framework. An Introduction by
Donald Firesmith and Brian Henderson-Sellers. To be published
by
Addison-Wesley in
October 2001.
OPEN Modeling with UML by Brian
Henderson-Sellers and Bhuvan Unhelkar. Published by
Addison-Wesley in July
2000, ISBN 0-201-67512-9
The OPEN Toolbox of Techniques by Brian
Henderson-Sellers, Tony Simons and Houman Younessi. Published
by
Addison-Wesley in
September 1998, ISBN 0-201-33134-9.
Documenting a Complete Java Application using
OPEN by Don Firesmith, Scott Krutsch, Marshall Stowe
and Greg Hendley. Published by
Addison-Wesley in
1998, ISBN 0-201-34277-4.
The OPEN Process Specification by Ian Graham,
Brian Henderson-Sellers and Houman Younessi. Published by
Addison-Wesley in
October 1997, ISBN 0-201-33133-0.
The OPEN Modeling Language (OML) Reference
Manual by Don Firesmith, Brian Henderson-Sellers and
Ian Graham. Published by SIGS Books, NY, in March 1997, ISBN
1-884842-75-5. Published by
Cambridge University Press in June 1999, ISBN
0-521-64823-8.
The OPEN Process Framework
by Don Firesmith and Brian Henderson-Sellers. Published by
Addison-Wesley in
December 2001, ISBN 0-201-67510-2.