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The Programmer Shortage: Deja Vu All Over Again

Posted April 18, 2000 | Leadership | Leadership | Amplify

At last week's Cutter Consortium Summit 2000 conference in Boston, Massachusetts, one of the sessions was devoted to recruiting, motivating, and retaining IT professionals. Obviously, the main reason IT managers are thinking about this subject is that the overall unemployment rate in the US is at a 20-year low, and the unemployment rate of IT professionals is nearly zero.

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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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