Dennis Mancl is an independent consultant and educator in the field of software engineering and software development practices. Until recently, he was a Member of Technical Staff at Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he worked on software tools and processes to support quality and productivity in the telecom industry. He has worked with technologies from C++ to UML to use cases to agile development in his years as an internal software process consultant for AT&T, Lucent, and Alcatel-Lucent.