Ed Yourdon
He is an internationally-recognized computer consultant, as well as the author of more than two dozen books, including: "Byte Wars, Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects," "Death March," "Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer," and "Decline and Fall of the American Programmer." His latest book, "Outsource: competing in the global productivity race", discusses both current and future trends in offshore outsourcing, and provides practical strategies for individuals, small Businesses, and the nation to cope with this unstoppable tidal wave. According to the December 1999 issue of Crosstalk: The Journal of Defense Software Engineering, Ed Yourdon is one of the ten most influential men and women in the software field. In June 1997, he was inducted into the Computer Hall of Fame, along with such notables as Charles Babbage, Seymour Cray, James Martin, Grace Hopper, Gerald Weinberg, and Bill Gates. Mr. Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s, as well as co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of Object-Oriented analysis/design and the popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology of the late 1980s and 1990s.Mr. Yourdon is the author of over 500 technical articles; he has also written 27 computer-related books since 1967. He is a member of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM), Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Project Management Institute (PMI), and Computer Law Association (CLA).
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Upcoming events by this speaker
- From 05/20/10 to 05/21/10 - Enterprise 2.0 Business/IT adoption of Collaborative Computing, Web 2.0, and Social Networks
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- 2007 September - Web 2.0
Past events by this speaker
- From 12/02/09 to 12/04/09 - Enterprise 2.0 Conference: Cost-Effective Web Solutions for the Enterprise
- From 11/30/09 to 12/01/09 - Managing Death-March Projects
- From 05/04/09 to 05/05/09 - ENTERPRISE 2.0: Business/IT adoption of Collaborative Computing, Web 2.0, and Social Networks
- From 12/03/08 to 12/05/08 - ENTERPRISE 2.0 CONFERENCE: Integrating Web 2.0 into the Enterprise
- From 06/09/08 to 06/10/08 - A new Internet Vision: Web 2.0 and beyond
- From 10/29/07 to 10/30/07 - A new Internet Vision: Web 2.0 and beyond
- From 04/02/07 to 04/03/07 - Web 2.0: a new Internet vision
- From 10/23/06 to 10/24/06 - Web 2.0 - a New Internet Vision: Planning and Designing Web 2.0 Applications
- From 06/07/04 to 06/09/04 - Extreme Project Management
- From 12/09/02 to 12/11/02 - Extreme Project Management
- From 04/18/02 to 04/19/02 - Extreme Project Management
- From 12/17/01 to 12/19/01 - Managing e-Business Development Projects
- From 05/02/01 to 05/04/01 - Managing e-Business Development Projects
- From 10/19/00 to 10/20/00 - IT Megatrends: Strategic Planning fo the Key IT Trends