Ed Yourdon
He is an internationally-recognized expert witness and computer consultant who specializes in project management, software engineering methodologies, and Web 2.0 development. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including “Outsource: competing in the global productivity race”, “Byte Wars”, “Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects”, “Death March”, “Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer”, and “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”. He is currently focusing on Web 2.0 technologies, and was the guest editor of the October 2006 special issue of the Cutter IT Journal on “Creating Business Value with Web 2.0”; he has developed an extensive “mind-map” of Web 2.0 concepts, technologies, products, and vendors. 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. 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. He was selected as an Honored Member of Who’s Who in the Computer Industry in 1989. And he was given the Productivity Award in 1992 by Computer Language magazine, for his book “Decline and Fall of the American Programmer”.
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- 2007 September - Web 2.0
Past events by this speaker
- From 05/28/14 to 05/30/14 - Extreme Project Management
- From 10/10/13 to 10/11/13 - Practical IT Project Estimating Techniques
- From 10/07/13 to 10/09/13 - Agile Project Management
- From 06/10/13 to 06/12/13 - Extreme Project Management
- From 11/08/12 to 11/09/12 - Practical IT Project Estimating Techniques
- From 11/05/12 to 11/07/12 - Agile Project Management
- From 05/07/12 to 05/09/12 - Extreme Project Management
- From 10/10/11 to 10/12/11 - Extreme Project Management
- From 05/02/11 to 05/04/11 - Agile Project Management
- From 12/01/10 to 12/03/10 - Enterprise Web & Cloud Computing Conference Europe
- From 11/03/10 to 11/05/10 - Extreme Project Management
- From 05/20/10 to 05/21/10 - Enterprise 2.0 Business/IT adoption of Collaborative Computing, Web 2.0, and Social Networks
- 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