The September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks are transforming information technology, leading to profound and permanent changes. This text focuses on the immediate changes IT professionals are already encountering in 2002 and the long-term changes for which they must prepare.
EDWARD YOURDON is an internationally recognized consultant, lecturer, and author or coauthor of more than 25 books, including Managing High-Intensity Internet Projects, Death March, and The Rise and Resurrection of the American Programmer. Widely known as the lead developer of structured analysis/design methods in the 1970s and the popular Coad/Yourdon object-oriented methodology in the early 1990s, he has been 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.