One of the "megatrends" proposed by the Cutter Technology Council is a manifestation of the "dark side" of IT systems development: projects fail, and the developer and customer sue each other for the costs incurred. Or the key developer quits unexpectedly, taking along large chunks of proprietary code.
Executive Update
Planning for IT-Related Litigation
By Ed Yourdon
Posted June 30, 2000 | Leadership | Leadership | Leadership |
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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