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Y2000 Is More Than a Coding Problem

Posted September 29, 1998 | Leadership | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify | Amplify

Traditional software developers often dismiss Y2000 as a simple problem, arguing that it involves nothing more than a large number of intellectually trivial code-fixing problems. Y2000 projects don't require any systems design or requirements-definition activity, right? Yes, there is some testing to be done, the software developers acknowledge, but even that should be simple because all of the test data is concerned with the same date-related issue.

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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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