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Why Do We Need Licensing? It's Not As If We've Killed Anyone...

Posted April 30, 1998 | Leadership | Leadership |

WHY DO WE NEED LICENSING? IT'S NOT AS IF WE'VE KILLED ANYONE...

by Ed Yourdon

The notion of licensing and certifying software professionals has been hotly debated for years, if not decades.

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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