Introduction

Posted March 31, 1996 | |

Introduction

by Ed Yourdon

Where, oh where, have the complex systems gone? In these days of rapid prototyping and client-server development environments such as Visual Basic and Delphi, many of our senior managers may be getting the impression that all software development projects are simple "3-by-3" exercises -- three people for three months.

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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