Scott W. Ambler

Chief Methodologist/Agile & SOA, IBM Rational

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.

Speaker Session(s):

Opening Keynote

"Agile Enterprise Architecture? Oxymoron or Savior?"

Agile software delivery strategies have taken organizations by storm, and those very same organizations are now scaling agile strategies across the entire IT organization as well as on very complex projects. Agile strategies are even being applied on enterprise architecture teams and are proving to be successful in practice. This presentation overviews IBM’s Agile Scaling Model (ASM), IBM agility@scale, and how to take an agile approach to enterprise architecture. It also summarizes industry data exploring the effectiveness of agile strategies and of various enterprise architecture strategies – you’ll be surprised what actually seems to work in practice