With all of the gloomy stories about the dot-com collapse, you might get the impression that the high-tech jobs associated with all of those failed companies have vanished. If pets.com and this.com and that.com have all gone bankrupt, then will we really need all of those Java programmers? If the dot-com industry has laid off 20,000-30,000 people in the past year, are they all still unemployed?
Advisor
Dot-Com Blues Have Not Eliminated Competition for High-Tech Whiz Kids
By Ed Yourdon
Posted February 7, 2001 | Leadership |
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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