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Scott W. Ambler is the Practice Leader Agile Development at IBM Corporation. Scott works in the IBM Methods group developing process materials and travels the world helping clients understand and adopt the software processes which are right for them. Scott is an award-winning author of several books, including books focused on the Unified Process, agile software development, the Unified Modeling language, and CMM-based development. Scott is a regular speaker at international IT conferences and is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb’s Journal.

Prior to working for IBM, Scott led the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies.

Scott holds a BSC in Computer Science and a Master of Information Science from the University of Toronto.

Recent Books

• Refactoring Databases: Evolutionary Database Design
  (Addison-Wesley Professional)

• The Enterprise Unified Process: Extending the Rational Unified Process
  (Prentice Hall PTR)

• The Elements of UML 2.0 Style
  (Cambridge University Press)

• The Object Primer: Agile Model Driven Development with UML 2
  (Cambridge University Press)

• The Practical Guide to Enterprise Architecture
  (Prentice Hall PTR)

• Agile Database Techniques: Effective Strategies for the Agile Software Developer
  (Wiley Publishing)

• Agile Modeling: Effective Practices for Extreme Programming and the Unified Process
  (Wiley Publishing)

See a full list of Scott's books and articles.