Stephany Bellomo is a senior member of the technical staff at the Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) Software Engineering Institute (SEI). Ms. Bellomo is a member of the Architecture Practices group and an active member of the Value-Driven Incremental Development research team. She teaches SEI courses in Service-Oriented Architecture Migration of Legacy Components and Software Architecture Principles and Practice. Ms. Bellomo has over 15 years'… Read More

Philippe Kruchten is a professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia (UBC), in Vancouver, Canada, where he holds an NSERC Chair in Design Engineering. Dr. Kruchten joined UBC in 2004 after a 30-plus-year career in industry, where he worked in large software-intensive systems design in the domains of telecommunications, defense, aerospace, and transportation. Some of his experience is embodied in the Rational Unified… Read More

Robert L. Nord is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI. Dr. Nord is engaged in activities focusing on Agile and architecting at scale and works to develop and communicate effective methods and practices for software architecture. His collaboration with Philippe Kruchten and Ipek Ozkaya is helping shape the research agenda on technical debt. He is coauthor of the practitioner-oriented books Applied Software Architecture and… Read More

Ipek Ozkaya is a senior member of the technical staff at the SEI. With her team, Dr. Ozkaya works to help organizations improve their software development efficiency and system evolution. Her work focuses on software architecture practices, software economics, and requirements management, and her latest publications include articles on Agile architecting, dependency management, and architectural technical debt. Dr. Ozkaya also chairs the… Read More