Introduction: American Programmer September 1997

Posted August 31, 1997 | |

Introduction

Software developers revel in the technical aspects of a project; their managers juggle schedules and budgets and revel in the Machiavellian political games that take place between end users, senior managers, and the development team.

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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