Dr. Robert Nord is a Senior Member of the Technical Staff at the SEI, where he develops effective methods and practices for software architecture. He also leads research on strategies for scaling agile development by incorporating architecture practices. Before joining the SEI, he worked in industry, where he balanced research in software architecture with work in designing and evaluating large-scale systems. He earned a PhD in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. He is a coauthor of the practitioner-oriented books Applied Software Architecture and Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond and lectures on architecture-centric approaches.