ADVISORY BOARD
SCOTT AMBLER is an industry-recognized software process improvement (SPI) expert. He is the practice leader of the Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD), Agile Unified Process (AUP), and Enterprise Unified Process (EUP) methodologies. Scott is the (co-)author of several books, including Refactoring Databases (Prentice Hall), Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons), The Object Primer 3rd Edition (Cambridge University Press) and The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall). Scott is also a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal. In his free time, Scott enjoys landscape and wildlife photography and studies Goju-Ryu Karate. Due to his extensive travel to work with clients around the world, and his martial arts background, several people have accused him of being a spy for the Canadian government. Unfortunately, none of those people are now available for comment.
ELLEN GOTTESDIENER, principal consultant, EBG Consulting, helps teams to collaboratively explore requirements, shape their development processes, and plan and review their work. She is author of Requirements by Collaboration: Workshops for Defining Needs (Addison-Wesley, 2002) and contributing author to several other books. Ellen’s latest book is The Software Requirements Memory Jogger: A Pocket Guide to Help Software and Business Teams Develop and Manage Requirements (GOAL/QPC, 2005). She presents seminars, is a conference speaker at numerous industry events, has authored numerous articles, and is a Certified Professional Facilitator (CPF). She can be reached at ellen@ebgconsulting.com and www.ebgconsulting.com.
DAN SAKS is the president of Saks & Associates, a training and consulting company
specializing in C++. He is a contributing editor for Embedded Systems Programming and was
a member of the advisory board for the C/C++ Users Journal. He has also written columns
for The C++ Report, Software Development magazine and the Windows Developer's Journal.
Dan is coauthor of C++ Programming Guidelines and codeveloper of Suite++: The Plum Hall Validation
Suite for C++. He served for many years as secretary of the ANSI and ISO C++ standards committee, and
continues to follow the committees' activities.
REBECCA WIRFS-BROCK, president of Wirfs-Brock Associates, is a world-renowned innovator in practical
object analysis and design techniques. She is lead author of Object Design: Roles, Responsibilities and
Collaborations (Addison-Wesley 2003), and she invented the set of development practices known as
Responsibility-Driven Design. Most recently, she has focused on ways to effectively communicate design
ideas, ways to be a thoughtful agile designer, designing flexible software without over- or under-engineering
a solution, and effective ways to consider design alternatives. Among her widely used innovations are
use-case conversations and object role stereotypes. She's a proponent of practical techniques and effective
communication. She specializes in the transfer of object analysis and design expertise through mentoring,
consulting and training.
