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 CMM-based development.
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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 written 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]
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.
Scott Ambler has published several books[7] and articles.[8] A selection: