Introduction: American Programmer April 1997

Posted March 31, 1997 | |

Introduction

One of the interesting characteristics of the software engineering field is that most of the "process improvement" activities start at the back end of the development life cycle and gradually work their way toward the front of the life cycle.

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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