Outsourcing has been a growing business throughout most of the 1990s, and it shows no signs of slowing down. Originally, the practice was limited primarily to the operations and data-center activities within organizations; it's worth remembering, for example, that outsourcing of data-center activities was essentially the beginning of Ross Perot's EDS empire back in the 1970s.
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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