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DO SOFTWARE PROJECTS STILL DEPEND ON UNPAID OVERTIME? 29 April 1998 by Ed Yourdon
During a project management seminar in Toronto last week, I had a very interesting discussion with the other participants on the subject of overtime.
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Virtual Communities
Virtual Communities 22 April 1998
What about all this virtual stuff? To a significant extent it is -- of course -- overblown, but there are some trends that will impact how you align technology to virtual business processes. Here are a few worth noting:
The structured analysis/design methodologies that my colleagues and I developed in the 1970s and 1980s are often described as "obsolete" by those who advocate object-oriented methods such as UML. But in survey after survey that I conduct in software engineering seminars, I continue to find that only 20%-30% of the project teams claim to be using OO methods. So, what are all the other project teams doing?
STRUCTURED METHODS AND THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS 22 April 1998 by Ed Yourdon
The structured analysis/design methodologies that my colleagues and I developed in the 1970s and 1980s are often described as "obsolete" by those who advocate
As a Mac user, I'm part of that stubborn 3% of the marketplace that doesn't really care which version of Windows is being shipped from Redmond -- but it's impossible to ignore the increasing drumbeat of announcements that Windows 98 is about to be unleashed upon the industry. Assuming that the Department of Justice doesn't surprise us with some last-minute sanctions, it's reasonable to assume that Microsoft will begin shipping the "official" version of the operating system sometime in the next 60-90 days.
WHAT IF MICROSOFT GAVE A PARTY
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