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SOFTWARE LINKS
Atlantic Systems Guild. Tom DeMarco and his colleagues hold forth at the same old popsicle stand. The advice is good -- check it out. Buy books!
Rocky Mountain Windows Technology Users Group. My favorite Colorado technical group is still going strong, with Bob Withers as the VP in Colorado Springs. Bob, why don't you answer my e-mails?
Capers Jones. Capers was really "Mr. Metrix" in the 80's and 90's. He became strident in anticipating Y2k, and the less-than-Apocalyptic outcome was depressing, to say the most. (To me, as well as Capers) Software Productivity Research, the company he founded, lives on, with his guidance and encouragement.
Ed Yourdon. Like Capers, Ed blunted (if not broke) his pick on the rock of 2000, but he sold LOTS of books. He's still around, and he still has lots to say about software as well as the affairs of the day. Check out his website, here.
Ken Orr & Dave Higgins. I was always a great fan of Warnier-Orr Diagrams as a program design tool to design programs which run the first time, every time. I taught this concept for a decade in the 80's, and Ken and Dave are still carrying the torch here.
Jerry Weinberg is doing business as usual, if you could ever call it that. His change workshop is going strong, and you can read about it here.
Steve McConnell took some solid ideas about Software Development and turned them into a goldmine. His company, Construx, is the company I would choose to work for, or to work for me, if I needed software.
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