During the 1992 US presidential campaign, the Democratic Party entered a new phrase into popular American vocabulary: "It's the economy, stupid!" The phrase echoed its belief (and campaign strategy) that the economy was the most important issue of the day and that many issues and problems could be traced back to it.
Executive Update
About The Author
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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