Jersey City, NJ: Software Best Practices Conference

I’ll be speaking at the Jersey City venue of the 2006 “Software Best Practices” conference, organized by the IT Metrics and Productivity Institute. For more details, click here.

We were down, now we’re up

You may not have noticed it, but our web site, blog, Just Enough Structured Analysis wiki, and yourdon.com email all crashed sometime mid-afternoon Wednesday, and wasn’t fully restored until this (Friday) morning.
I’m sure this had nothing to do with the fact that the Dow Jones average dropped 73 points today, or that two public buses [...]

Web 2.0 mind-map, version 025

I’ve added a couple links to my Web 2.0 mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply download the 7.1-megabyte PDF by clicking here.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to this version:

On the “Conferences” branch of the “References” page of [...]

Web 2.0 mind-map, version 024

I’ve added a few new links to my Web 2.0 mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply download the 7.1-megabyte PDF by clicking here.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to this version:

On the “Risks” branch of the “Wiki phenomenon” [...]

Web 2.0 mind-map, version 23

I’ve added some new links to interesting articles, analyses, guidelines, and other resources to my Web 2.0 mind-map. You can find it in the “downloads” section of my main web site at www.yourdon.com/downloads, or you can simply download the 7.1-megabyte PDF by clicking here.
Here’s a summary of what I’ve added to this version:

On the “Technology” [...]

Seattle: Society for Information Management

I’ll be presenting a talk on “Business-IT Alignment in the Internet Age” on the morning of November 15th. For more information, visit the Society for Information Management (Seattle chapter) website.

Joel Spolsky on Developing Great Software

I had the pleasure of listening to Joel Spolsky presenting a keynote address at the Construx Executive Summit conference yesterday. Joel is known to many as the author of the popular Joel on Software blog, and to some as the author of the book, Joel on Software: And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That [...]

Thank you, Luis Suarez

Luis Suarez has written a very nice blog posting about my latest Web 2.0 update (“Ed Yourdon – Web 2.0 Mind-Map Updated!“) I can’t find his email address anywhere, so I’ll just have to thank him publicly here. In return, let me recommend that you take a look at Luis’ elusa blog; it’s a terrific [...]

Chapters 14, 15, 16 of JESA are now on the structured analysis wiki site

Chapters 14, 15, and 16 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book have now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
This completes Part II of the book. There are still 9 chapters and 7 appendices to upload; as mentioned previously, it will probably take another couple of weeks to upload all [...]

Three more structured analysis chapters on the wiki

Chapters 7, 8, and 13 of my Just Enough Structured Analysis book have now been uploaded to the wiki, which you can find here.
As mentioned previously, will probably take another few weeks to upload all of the material from the HTML-based manuscript, which is still on my website here.
In the meantime, you are welcome [...]