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Herding Cats

Posted August 18, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

I was chatting recently with a new consulting client about the software project that he had just undertaken, suggesting to him that the success of the project would depend less on object-oriented methodology and RAD (rapid application development) tools than on the effectiveness of the project team that had been assigned to work on it.

He looked at me blankly. "Team?" he asked, incredulously. "I don't have a team. At best, it's a committee; at worst, it's a herd of cats."

About The Author
Ed Yourdon
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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