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Edward Yourdon |
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| Edward
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| Ed Yourdon
Edward Yourdon is Chairman of Cutter Consortium,
a Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council,
and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the
Cutter IT Journal. He has chaired Cutter's Summit
for many years. Mr. Yourdon is widely known
as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design
methods of the 1970s. He was a codeveloper of
the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented
(OO) analysis/design and the popular Coad/Yourdon
OO methodology. Mr. Yourdon has extensive experience
in identifying and providing solutions to Y2000
business risks for clients throughout the world.
His clients included major organizations in
the financial services, hospitality, and food
and beverage industries, as well as the government
sector. With Y2000 now behind us, Mr. Yourdon
continues to focus on issues of business/IT
alignment; mitigating risks of large outsourcing
initiatives; auditing of large, risky projects;
development and implementation of e-business
initiatives; as well as forecasting and tracking
critical business/IT "megatrends" in the coming
decade. Mr. Yourdon began his career in the
computer industry at Digital Equipment Company
more than 35 years ago. During his career, he
has been involved in a number of pioneering
computer technologies, such as time-sharing
operating systems and virtual memory systems.
In 1974, Mr. Yourdon founded YOURDON, Inc. to
provide educational, publishing, and consulting
services in state-of-the-art software engineering
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| The company grew to a staff of
more than 150, with offices throughout North
America and Europe. As CEO, he oversaw an
operation that trained more than 250,000 people
around the world. YOURDON, Inc. was sold in
1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the
French software company that is now part of
IBM. The publishing division, YOURDON Press
(now part of Prentice Hall), has produced
more than 150 technical computer books on
a wide range of software engineering topics.
Mr. Yourdon was an advisor to Technology Transfer's
research project on software industry opportunities
in the former Soviet Union and was a member
of the expert advisory panel on I-CASE acquisition
for the US Department of Defense. He is currently
a member of the Airlie Council, a group of
high-end advisors formulating software "best-practices"
for the US Department of Defense. Mr. Yourdon
has authored more than 200 technical articles;
he has also written 25 computer books since
1967. His recent books include Time Bomb 2000:
What the Year 2000 Crisis Means to You, The
Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer,
Decline and Fall of the American Programmer,
and Death March: The Complete Software Developer's
Guide to Surviving "Mission Impossible" Projects.
He can be reached at：consulting@cutter.com.
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| Byte Wars: The Impact of September 11 on Information Technology
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2002 |
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| Perils of Personal Computing
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0917072502 |
1985 |
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| Learning to Program in Structured Cobol, Part I
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013805763X |
1978 |
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