Internationally recognized consultant, lecturer, and author or co-author 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 1970’s and the popular Coad/Yourdon object-oriented methodology in the early 1990’s, 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.