A long time ago, in what now seems like a galaxy far, far away, a software guru by the name of Gerald Weinberg wrote a book called The Psychology of Computer Programming. Several of my colleagues and I stumbled upon the book by accident when it first appeared in 1971, and we were all thunderstruck -- no one had ever suggested that software development might be considered as a human activity.
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Rebirth of a Classic
By Ed Yourdon
Posted October 27, 1998 | Leadership | 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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