When the news media began pronouncing "victory" over the dreaded Year 2000 bug a few seconds after midnight last New Year's Eve, more than a few IT managers wondered if the celebration wasn't a bit premature.
Project Success or "Non-Event"? What to Make of Year 2000
By Ed Yourdon
Posted June 30, 2000 | Leadership | Leadership |
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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