Ambler received a BSc in
computer science and an MA in
information science from the
University of Toronto. He has been working in the IT industry since the mid-1980s, with object technology since the early 1990s, and in IT methodologies since the mid-1990s. Scott has led the development of several software processes, including
Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) (with Mark Lines),
Agile Modeling (AM), Agile Data (AD),
Enterprise Unified Process (EUP), and
Agile Unified Process (AUP) methodologies. Scott was a Senior Consulting Partner with SA+A and then became the Chief Scientist at Disciplined Agile which became a part of the
Project Management Institute while helping organizations around the world to improve their IT processes. Ambler was a contributing editor with
Dr. Dobb's Journal, and has written columns for Software Development, Object Magazine, and Computing Canada. He is speaker at a wide variety of practitioner and academic conferences worldwide. Public conferences include Agile 20XX, Agile India 20XX, Software Development, Agile Universe, UML World, JavaOne,
OOPSLA, EuroSPI, and CAiSE. Scott also is a keynote speaker at private conferences organized by large, Fortune 500 companies for their managers and IT staff. He is a Disciplined Agile Fellow of the Project Management Institute and a Fellow of the International Association of Software Architects (IASA). In the past he was an Eclipse Process Framework (EPF) committer and a Jolt Judge at the
Jolt Awards. == Work ==