Scott W. Ambler (1966) is a Canadian software engineer, consultant and author, currently Practice Leader Agile Development at IBM Corporation in the IBM Methods group. He is known as author of several books focused on the Unified process, Agile software development, the Unified Modeling Language, and
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Biography
Ambler received a BSc in computer science and a MA in information science from the University of Toronto.[1]
He has been worked in the IT industry since the mid 1980s, and with object technology since the early 1990s.[2] Since 1990 he has worked with OO technology in various roles: Business Architect, System Analyst, System Designer, Project Manager, Smalltalk programmer, Java programmer, and C++ programmer.[3] Further he led the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies.[1]
Scott has been a contributing editor with Software Development [4], and has writem columns for Object Magazine [5] and Computing Canada.[3]
He is speaker at a wide variety of practitioner, Academic and private conferences world wide, such as conferences on Software Development, Agile Universe, UML World, JavaOne, BorCon, Comdex, and Application Development, conferences such as OOPSLA, EuroSPI, and CAiSE and conferences held by large, Fortune 500 conferences for their managers and IT staff.[6]
He is a Fellow of the International Association of Software Architects, an Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) committer, and a Jolt Judge at the Jolt Awards.[2]
Work
Ambler has developed the Agile Unified Process (AUP) - a simplified version of the Rational Unified Process - and the Enterprise Unified Process, an extension of the Rational Unified Process.
See also
Publications
Scott Ambler has published several books[7] and articles[8]. A selection:
- 1995. The object primer : the application developer’s guide to object-orientation. SIGS Books. ISBN 1884842178
- 1998. Process patterns : building large-scale systems using object technology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521645689
- 2002. Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for EXtreme Programming and the Unified Process. J. Wiley. ISBN 0471202827.
- 2002. The Unified Process Transition and Production Phases. With Larry Constantine. CMP Books, Lawrence 2002. ISBN 1-57820-092-X.
- 2003. The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture. WithJames McGovern, Mike Stevens, James Linn, Vikas Sharan, and Elias Jo. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0131412752
- 2003. Agile database techniques : effective strategies for the agile software developer. Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0471202835
- 2004. The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54018-6
- 2005. Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-191451-0.
- 2006. Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design. With Pramod J. Sadalage. Addison Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-29353-3
References
- ^ a b Scott W. Ambler Bio at ubm.com. Retrieved May 22 2009.
- ^ a b Scott W. Ambler's Home Page
- ^ a b Scott W. Ambler (1998). An Introduction to Process Patterns. An AmbySoft Inc. White Paper.
- ^ Software Development
- ^ Object Magazine
- ^ Speaking Engagements. Retrieved May 22 2009.
- ^ My Books at ambysoft.com. Retrieved May 22 2009.
- ^ Scott Ambler's Articles and Other Writings. Retrieved May 22 2009.
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