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Edward Yourdon, one of the Directors of iGATE Corporation, is credited with having invented much of modern software engineering in the 1970s. He has produced many books over the past 20-plus years, many of them reporting on the latest trends in this field. Some of his books are Decline & Fall of the American Programmer(1992), Rise & Resurrection of the American Programmer (1996), and finally his most recent offering, Death March: The Complete Software Developer's Guide to Surviving 'Mission Impossible' Projects (3,400 words). In his most recent, Death March, he renounces many of the formalisms he created two decades ago, saying that they are irrelevant in today's Internet-speed world.
Ed 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 popular Coad/Yourdon OO methodology.
He has extensive experience in identifying and providing business continuity planning (BCP) solutions for clients throughout the world. His clients include major organizations in the financial services, hospitality, and food and beverage industries, as well as the government sector. Ed focuses on 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".
Ed began his career in the computer industry at Digital Equipment Company more than 35 years ago. During his career, he has been involved in a number of pioneering computer technologies, such as time-sharing operating systems and virtual memory systems. In 1974, he founded YOURDON, Inc. to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. As CEO, he oversaw an operation that trained more than 250,000 people around the world. YOURDON, Inc. was sold in 1986 and eventually became part of CGI, the French software company that is now part of IBM. The publishing division, YOURDON Press (now part of Prentice Hall), has produced more than 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics.
He was an advisor to Technology Transfer's research project on software industry opportunities in the formerSoviet Unionand was a member of the expert advisory panel on I-CASE acquisition for the US Department of Defense. He was a member of the Airlie Software Council.
Ed is the author/coauthor of more that 25 computer books, as well as more than 525 technical articles since 1967. He is a member of the board of iGATE Corporation and iGATE Global Solutions.
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