It initially was called Extreme Modeling (XM) but at the suggestion of Robert Cecil Martin was renamed to AM in the spring of 2001.
Robert Cecil Martin, American software author and consultant, known as Uncle Bob
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Some of the well-known early object-oriented methodologies were from and inspired by gurus such as Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson (the Three Amigos) , Robert Martin, Peter Coad, Sally Shlaer, Stephen Mellor, and Rebecca Wirfs-Brock.