Philippe Kruchten is a professor of software engineering at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada, after retiring from 30+ years in industry in various countries around the globe. His current interests are software process modeling, agile processes, and software architecture, and the impact of culture on global software engineering projects. Prior to UBC, he spent 16 years at Rational Software (now IBM Software Group), where he was associated as a consultant with several large-scale defense and aerospace projects around the world, and where he developed the Rational Unified Process', a software engineering handbook used by half a million developers around the world. He also spent 8 years at Alcatel in France, developing telephone switches. He has a mechanical engineering diploma and a doctorate degree in computer science from French institutions. Dr. Kruchten is a professional software engineer, and councilor at APEGBC.