Scott Ambler

Scott W. Ambler (1966) is a Canadian software engineer, consultant and author, currently Senior Consulting Partner at Scott Ambler + Associates. He is an author of a number of books focused on the Disciplined Agile Delivery process decision framework, the Unified process, Agile software development, the Unified Modeling Language, and CMM-based development.

He regularly runs surveys ^[1] which explore software development issues and works with organizations in different countries on their approach to software development.

Biography

Ambler received a BSc in computer science and a MA in information science from the University of Toronto. He has been working 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.

Ambler has been a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal,^[4] and has written columns for Software Development, Object Magazine, 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; Application Development conferences including OOPSLA, EuroSPI, CAiSE; and conferences held by large, Fortune 500 companies for their managers and IT staff.^[5]

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 Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) decision process framework, the Enterprise Unified Process ^[6] (an extension of the Rational Unified Process), and Agile Modeling.^[7]

See also

• Database refactoring

Publications

Scott Ambler has published several books^[8] and articles.^[9] A selection:

• 1995. The object primer: the application developer’s guide to object-orientation. SIGS Books. ISBN 1-884842-17-8
• 1998. Process patterns: building large-scale systems using object technology. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-64568-9
• Ambler, Scott (2002). Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for EXtreme Programming and the Unified Process. J. Wiley. ISBN 0-471-20282-7. 
• Ambler, Scott; Constantine, Larry (2002). The Unified Process Transition and Production Phases. CMP Books. ISBN 1-57820-092-X. 
• 2003. The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture with James McGovern, Mike Stevens, James Linn, Vikas Sharan, and Elias Jo. Prentice Hall. ISBN 0-13-141275-2
• 2003. Agile database techniques: effective strategies for the agile software developer. Wiley Publishing. ISBN 0-471-20283-5
• 2004. The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-54018-6
• Ambler, Scott; Vizdos, Michael (2005). Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process. Prentice Hall PTR. ISBN 0-13-191451-0. 
• Ambler, Scott; Sadalage, Pramod J. (2006). Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design. Addison Wesley Professional. ISBN 0-321-29353-3. 
• Ambler, Scott; Lines, Mark (2012). Disciplined Agile Delivery: A Practitioner's Guide to Agile Software Delivery in the Enterprise. IBM press. ISBN 978-0132810135. 

References

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