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Encyclopedia > Ed Yourdon

Edward Yourdon is a computer consultant, author, and lecturer and a recognised pioneer in a software engineering methodology - structured programming.


Ed was the lead developer of the structured systems analysis and design methodology of the 1970s, and was a co-developer of the Yourdon/Whitehead method of object-oriented analysis/design.


He has authored over 550 technical articles and authored or coauthored 26 computer books since 1967.


He is a graduate of MIT.


External Links

  • Ed Yourdon's website (http://www.yourdon.com/)
  • Ed Yourdon's entry in the Computer Hall of Fame (http://www.computerhalloffame.org/1998.shtml)

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Cutter Consortium :: Ed Yourdon (569 words)
Yourdon is widely known as the lead developer of the structured analysis/design methods of the 1970s.
Yourdon continues to focus on BCP as well as issues of business/IT alignment; mitigating risks of large outsourcing initiatives; auditing of large, risky projects; development and implementation of e-business initiatives; as well as forecasting and tracking critical business/IT "megatrends".
Yourdon was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the former Soviet Union and was a member of the expert advisory panel on I-CASE acquisition for the US Department of Defense.
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