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What Happens When Software Development Isn't Fun Anymore?

Posted October 13, 1998 | Leadership | Leadership |

WHAT HAPPENS WHEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT ISN'T FUN ANYMORE?

14 October 1998

by Ed Yourdon

When I got into the software field, back in the Dark Ages, I couldn't believe that someone would actually pay me an above-average salary to have fun.

About The Author
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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