Alan Mark Davis is president and CEO of Offtoa, Inc. in

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. He is a retired

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of Business Strategy and Entrepreneurship in the College of Business at the

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and in the Executive MBA program at the

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. Davis earned his master's degree in

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under

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at the

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in 1973 and

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under Thomas R. Wilcox at the

in 1975. He has held academic positions at

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and the

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. He has been a visiting faculty member at

, the

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(South Africa), the

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(Australia), and the

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(Spain). He was
Fulbright Specialist
at the

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(Nigeria) and

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(Indonesia). He has held industry positions at

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(a Director of R&D at GTE Communication Systems in

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; and Director of the Software Technology Center at GTE Laboratories in

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), BTG (Vice President in

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), and Omni-Vista (President in

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). He was Editor-in-Chief of

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from 1994 to 1998 and was an editor for the

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(1987-2010) and

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(1981-1991) and on the editorial board of the Requirements Engineering Journal (2005-2011). He was a

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Senior Specialist from 2003 through 2007. He has been an

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Fellow since 1994 and an

Life Fellow since 2015..

Books

Davis has written the following books. In 2006, his ''201 Principles of Software Development'' was voted by ACM members as one of the 20 classic computer science books: *''Software Requirements: Analysis and Specification'' (Prentice Hall 1990), . *''Software Requirements: Objects, Functions and States'' (Prentice Hall, 1993), . *''201 Principles of Software Development'' (McGraw Hill, 1995), . *''Great Software Debates'' (Wiley and IEEE Computer Society Press, 2004), . *''Just Enough Requirements Management'' (Dorset House, 2004), . *''Will Your New Start Up Make Money'' (Scrub Oak Press, 2014), . *''Unusual Africa: Traveling on the Edge'' (Scrub Oak Press, 2016), . *''Unusual Asia: Traveling on the Edge'' (Scrub Oak Press, 2017), . *''Unusual Latin America (and Antarctica): Traveling on the Edge'' (Scrub Oak Press, 2017), .

External links

Al Davis's web page
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