Tuesday, July 22 | 12:15 PM – 1:15 PM

Over the past few decades the IT industry has developed a range of approaches for modeling and documentation. Structured approaches. Data-driven approaches. Process-driven approaches. Object-oriented approaches. Unified approaches. Domain-specific approaches. Serial approaches. Agile approaches. Although the list goes on, all of these modeling approaches seem to struggle in practice -- regardless of how great they sound in theory. In this keynote Scott Ambler and Terry Quatrani explore the issues and risks surrounding modeling and documentation on IT projects, juxtaposing the traditional and agile lines of thought around this critical topic. Isn't it time we finally explored this topic in a coherent and meaningful manner?

Scott Ambler is a Practice Leader, Agile Development at IBM. An industry-recognized software process improvement expert, he is the practice leader of the Agile Modeling, Agile Data, Agile Unified Process and Enterprise Unified Process methodologies. Scott is the (co)-author of several books, including Refactoring Databases (Addison-Wesley, 2006), Agile Modeling (John Wiley & Sons, 2002), Agile Database Techniques (John Wiley & Sons, 2003), The Object Primer 3rd Edition (Cambridge University Press, 2004), and The Enterprise Unified Process (Prentice Hall, 2005). Scott is a contributing editor with Dr. Dobb's Journal.

Terry Quatrani is the UML Evangelist at IBM Corporation. Terry travels the world preaching the visual modeling gospel according to Grady, Jim, and Ivar. She is the co-author of the book Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and the author of the best selling books Visual Modeling with Rational Rose and UML, Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2000 and UML and Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML. Prior to working for IBM, Terry was employed by Rational Software Corporation where she was the UML Evangelist and General Electric Company where she was a founding member of the GE Advanced Concepts Center as well as a programmer and analyst. She started her professional career as an 8th grade Math teacher in Pennsauken, NJ. Terry holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from St. Joseph’s University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Terry has presented at many industry conferences including SD East, SD West, UML World, OOPSLA, DAMA International, the Rational User Conference and others. She is author of the books Succeeding with the Booch and OMT Methods and Visual Modeling with Rational Rose 2002 and UML.