Cutter Consortium :: James Odell

James Odell is a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Practice and a regular contributor to the Enterprise Architecture Advisory Service. He is a consultant, writer, and educator in the areas of agent-based and object-oriented systems. Throughout most of his 35-year career, Mr. Odell has been heavily involved in developing better methods to understand, communicate, and manage system requirements. He was one of the early innovators of information engineering methodologies.

Mr. Odell is one of the first practical implementers of object-oriented analysis and design. Working with the Object Management Group (OMG) and other major methodologists, he continues to innovate and improve object-oriented methods and techniques. He participated in the development of the Unified Modeling Language, and is the cochair of the OMG's Analysis and Design Task Force, as well as the Agents Special Interest Group. Mr. Odell conducts international seminars and workshops, and provides consulting to major companies worldwide. Formerly, Mr. Odell was the principal consultant for KnowledgeWare, Inc., where he pioneered and taught the concepts of data modeling, information strategy planning, and CASE technology application. He now consults with leading organizations to advance the state of agent technology within the OMG and the computer industry.

Mr. Odell has coauthored, with James Martin, several books published by Prentice Hall, including Object-Oriented Analysis and Design (1992), Object-Oriented Methods: Pragmatic Considerations (1996), and most recently, Object-Oriented Methods: A Foundation, UML Edition (1998). He also has published three edited books on agent-oriented software engineering.

Mr. Odell's clients include Amazon.com, Netscape, Chrysler, Deloitte & Touche, Capgemini, the US Navy, and other major companies across various business sectors in 19 different countries. Many of his publications are available from his Web site www.jamesodell.com. He can be reached at consulting@cutter.com.

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