Al Davis, President and CEO of Omni-Vista, Inc., is
recognized as one of the foremost experts on software requirements management
and product planning. He is on extended leave of absence from the University of
Colorado at Colorado Springs, where he serves as the El Pomar Chair of Software
Engineering and Professor of Computer Science. He has consulted for many
corporations over the past twenty years, including Boeing, British Telecom,
Cadence Design Systems, Cigna Insurance, Federal Express, Flight Dynamics,
Fujitsu, General Electric, Great Plains Software, IBM, Loral, McDonald’s, MCI,
Mitsubishi Electric, NEC, NTT, Rational Software, Rockwell, Schlumberger,
Sharp, Software Productivity Consortium, Storage Tek, Sulzer Intermedics, and
Sumitomo. He is the author of Software Requirements: Objects, Functions and
States, the best-selling 201 Principles of Software Development, and coauthor
of Best Practices in Requirements Management.