In the Y2000 field, there is an ongoing debate about the ethical responsibility of IT professionals to resist the temptation to "bug out" and head for the hills. Strong suggestions are being made that good programmers will remain loyal to society, and to their profession, by staying on the job to fix Y2000 bugs right up until midnight on 31 December 1999 -- and beyond.
Advisor
Programmer Loyalty
By Ed Yourdon
Posted June 30, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify
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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