As I suggested in last week's column, the uncertain state of the US economy "doesn't mean that [companies will] stop spending money on IT altogether, but it could mean a slower growth, or even a small decline." I'm not usually narcissistic enough to quote my own words, but I think it's important for ALL of us to be very careful with the words that we use to describe IT spending plans and strategies.
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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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