As a reasonably well-informed IT professional, I can still remember how shocked I was when I first heard metrics gurus such as Howard Rubin and Paul Strassmann proclaiming that 50% of IT development projects produce no business value for their enterprise, and that aggregate IT spending exceeds the aggregate profits of most US and international firms.
About The Author
Ed Yourdon was cofounder, with Karen Coburn, of Cutter Consortium. Ed served as Fellow of the Cutter Business Technology Council, and Founding Editor and Editor Emeritus of the Cutter IT Journal. He 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… Read More
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