Education
Ambler received a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Master of Arts in information science from the University of Toronto.
Ambler received a Bachelor of Science in computer science and a Master of Arts in information science from the University of Toronto.
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 which explore software development issues and works with organizations in different countries on their approach to software development. He has been working in the Information Technology industry since the mid-1980s, and with object technology since the early 1990s.
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.
Further he led the development of several software processes, including Agile Modeling (Department of Administration and Management), Agile Data (AD), Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies. Ambler has been a contributing editor with Doctor Dobb"s Journal, and has written columns for Software Development, Object Magazine, and Computing Canada.
He is speaker at a wide variety of practitioner, academic, and private conferences worldwide, 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 Information Technology staff
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.