Most issues of American Programmer focus on relatively technical topics, such as systems design, project management, or the nuances of the Internet. But occasionally we need to step back and ask ourselves, what's the point of all of this? What is it that we're stuffing into our computer databases? What exactly is the "asset" that a company's IT organization guards so jealously?
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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