Scott Ambler's Articles

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This page provides links to my books and web-based writings. Over the years I have published a fair bit of information, some of which is contradictory (although the advice fits the context), on several sites. I have information posted at Agile Data, Agile Modeling, Ambysoft, Computing Canada, Enterprise Unified Process^TM, IBM DeveloperWorks, Oracle Technology Network, and Dr. Dobb's Journal Online. The articles posted at DDJ are marked with the icon and the articles at IBM Developerworks with the icon. I also have an Agile Modeling newsletter via DDJ and my Agile at Scale blog at IBM Developerworks.

Table of Contents

Agile Adoption
Agile Software Development
Agility@Scale
Architecture
Books
Data
Deployment
Documentation
Governance
Humor
Java
Lean
Modeling
Objects
Patterns and Anti-Patterns
People
Programming (General)
Project Management
Rational Unified Process (RUP)
Reuse
Software Development (Miscellaneous topics)
Surveys
Testing and Quality Assurance
User Interface Development
Other Ideas

Agile Adoption

Agile Software Development

Agility@Scale

Architecture

Books

Listed in the order in which they were published. The first and second edition of The Object Primer do not appear in the list, nor does the first edition of The Elements of UML Style.

Data

Adopting Agile Database Techniques
Advanced XML? No, Just Realistic XML
Agile Best Practices for Data Warehouse (DW)/Business Intelligence (BI) Projects
Agile Data Modeling
Agile Data Techniques (Cutter Consortium Dec 2005, A collection of 5 articles by various authors)
Agile Enterprise Administration: Beyond Data Administration
Agile Enterprise Architecture: Beyond Enterprise Data Models
Agile Master Data Management (MDM)
Agile Strategies for Master Data Management (MDM) (Cutter IT Journal)
Agility is for Everyone
Best Practices for Retrieving Objects from a Relational Database
Cultural Impedance Mismatch
- Crossing the Developer-Data Divide
- Crossing the Object-Data Divide
- The Cultural Impedance Mismatch Between Data Professionals and Application Developers
- Data-Developer Relations Survey Results (September 2009)
Data and the RUP
Data Architecture and Beyond: Strategies for Improving Your Data Ecosphere (Cutter IT Journal)
Data Modeling 101
Design of a Persistence Layer
Encapsulating Database Access
Ensuring Database Quality
Evolutionary Database Development:
- Agile Data Modeling: From Domain Modeling to Physical Modeling
- Agile Data Modeling Part 1
- Agile Data Modeling Part 2: The Schema Evolves
- Agile Data Modeling Part 3: The New Rules
- Agile Database Techniques (book)
- Catalog of Database Refactorings
- Database Refactoring Smells
- Data Meets the Lifecycle
- Evolutionary Database Development (TDAN July 2005)
- Evolutionary Database Development: Bridging the Distance
- Introduction to Database Refactoring (TDAN July 2006)
- The Process of Database Refactoring
- Refactoring Databases (Objectview Issue #10, 3.4 Meg PDF)
- Refactoring for Fitness: Data Refactoring
- Ten Steps to a Robust DB: Database refactoring
Implementing Reports
Implementing Security Access Control
Introduction to Concurrency Control
Introduction to Transaction Control
Join the Evolution
The Object-Relational Impedance Mismatch
Object/Relational (O/R) Mapping 101
On Relational Theory
The "One Truth Above All Else" Anti-Pattern
Persistence Modeling in the UML (UML Data Modeling)
Questioning Traditional Data Management
Rationally Unified Data
Relational Databases 101
The Roles on Agile Data Projects
A RUP-Based Approach to Developing a Data Warehouse
- Part 1: Setting the Stage
- Part 2: Building and Deploying It
Testing
- Database Regression Testing
- Test Driven Database Design (TDDD) (the link is to a PDF of the magazine in which the article appeared)
- Test Driven Development of Relational Databases (IEEE Software, May/June 2007)
- What to Consider When Testing Databases
Working Together Effectively: Gelling the Group
XML in the Real World
An Unofficial UML Profile for Data Modeling
The Vision of the Agile Data Method
Whence Data Management? A Survey Into the Current State of DM
- Discussion and source data downloads are here
Whence Data Quality? A Survey Into the Current State of DQ
- Discussion and source data downloads are here
Why Data Models Don't Drive Object Models (And Vice Versa)
Working With Legacy Data

Deployment

Documentation

Governance

Humor

Java

Lean

Modeling

Objects

Patterns and Anti-Patterns

People

Programming (General)

Coding Style Guidelines

Project Management

Rational Unified Process (RUP)

Reuse

Software Development (Miscellaneous Topics)

Surveys

2007 IT Project Success Rates Survey (August 2007)
2008 IT Project Success Rates Survey (December 2008)
2010 IT Project Success Rates Survey (May/June 2010)
2011 IT Project Success Rates Survey Results (DDJ, October 2011)
2010 Scrum Certification Survey (Oct/Nov 2010)
Agile Adoption Rate Survey (March 2006)
Agile Adoption Rate Survey (March 2007)
Agile Adoption Rate Survey (February 2008)
Agile Adoption Success Factors (November 2011)
Agile and Enterprise Architecture 2011 (March 2011)
Agile in Practice: What Is Actually Going On Out There? (Agile 2008 presentation summarizing recent surveys, recorded by InfoQ)
Agile Practices and Principles Survey (July 2008)
Agile Practices Survey (July 2009)
Agile Project Initiation (August 2009)
Agile Project Success Rates (April 2010)
Agile Project Types (June 2011)
Agile Teams 2011 (April 2011)
Agile Team Issues, October 2011
Agility at Scale Survey Results (November 2009)
Current State of Data Management Survey (July 2006)
Current State of Data Quality Techniques (September 2006)
Data-Developer Relations Survey Results (September 2009)
Enterprise Architecture Survey Results (January 2010)
How Agile Are You? 2010 (August 2010)
IT Governance and Project Management Survey Results (July 2009)
IT Project Success Rates by Paradigm and Team Size (July 2010)
Modeling and Documentation Survey (July 2008)
Process Framework Survey (January 2008)
Project Management Practices for Staying Out of Trouble (December 2010)
Stakeholder Relationship Survey (May 2011)
Test Driven Development Survey (October 2008)

Testing and Quality Assurance

Agile Strategies for Geographically Distributed Quality Management (Agile Journal December 2007)
Agile Testing and Quality Strategies: Discipline Over Rhetoric
Agile Testing Strategies
Assurance and Agile Projects
Beyond Functional Requirements on Agile Software Projects
Coding Style Guidelines
Database Testing
- Database Regression Testing
- Test Driven Database Design (TDDD) (the link is to a PDF of the magazine in which the article appeared)
- Test Driven Development of Relational Databases (IEEE Software, May/June 2007)
- What to Consider When Testing Databases
Do Programmers Really Follow Development Guidelines?
Examining Test Driven Development
Executable Specifications: An Agile Best Practice
Extreme Testing (Test Driven Development)
Full Lifecycle Object-Oriented Testing (FLOOT) Methodology
Implicit to Formal: Validating Agile Models
J2EE Testing Primer
Model Reviews: Best Practice or Process Smell?
Quality in an Agile World
Test-Driven Development
- AMDD and TDD Go Hand-In-Hand
- Introduction to Test-Driven Design (TDD)
- Scaling Test-Driven Development (TDD)
- Test Driven Database Design (TDDD) (the link is to a PDF of the magazine in which the article appeared)
- Test Driven Development of Relational Databases (IEEE Software, May/June 2007)
- Test-Driven Development (TDD): Reality over Rhetoric
- Tragic Mistakes When Adopting Test-Driven Development (TDD)
Validating Agile Models
Whence Data Quality? A Survey Into the Current State of DQ
- Discussion and source data downloads are here

User Interface Development

Other Ideas