Ambler, Scott W. Scott W. Ambler is the President of Ronin International ( www.ronin-intl.com), a firm specializing in software process mentoring and software architecture consulting. He is a contributing editor with Software Development and author of the books The Object Primer (1995), Building Object Applications That Work (1998), Process Patterns (1998), More Process Patterns (1999), and co-author of The Elements of Java Style (2000) all published by Cambridge University Press.

Binder, Robert Robert Binder is president of RBSC Corp., in Chicago, Ill. He is co-author of The 1989 CASE User Survey, and the author of Application Debugging (Prentice-Hall, 1985) and Testing Object-Oriented Systems (Addison Wesley Longman, 1999).

Coad, Peter Peter Coad is the innovator behind the Coad Method, the software development method that bears his name. He founded Object International in 1986 and TogetherSoft in 1999.

Constantine, Larry Larry Constantine is the director of research and development at Constantine and Lockwood Ltd., and Management Forum editor of Software Development magazine.

Fowler, Martin Martin Fowler is an independent software consultant specializing in the application of object technology to business information systems. He is the co-author of UML Distilled (Addison-Wesley, 1997), and author of Analysis Patterns (Addison-Wesley Longman, 1997) and Refactoring (Addison Wesley Longman 1999).

Hanscome, Barbara Barbara Hanscome is former editor-in-chief of Software Development and is its current associate publisher.

Hargett, Phil Phil Hargett is a consultant with Diamond Technology Partners, a Chicago-based business and...