Yourdon
1. The Yourdon methodology.
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2. Edward Yourdon.
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3. Yourdon, Inc..
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon/Constantine
(Or "Constantine/Yourdon") A structured design methodology involving structure charts, developed by Larry Constantine.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon/Demarco
(Or "DeMarco/Yourdon") A structured analysis methodology involving data flow diagrams, etc. developed by Edward Yourdon and Tom DeMarco.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Yourdon, Inc.
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The company founded in 1974 by Edward Yourdon to provide educational, publishing, and consulting services in state-of-the-art software engineering technology. Over the next 12 years, the company grew to a staff of over 150 people, with offices throughout North America and Europe. As CEO of the company, Yourdon oversaw an operation that trained over 250,000 people around the world; the company 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 over 150 technical computer books on a wide range of software engineering topics; many of these "classics" are used as standard university computer science textbooks.
Last updated: 1995-04-16
Yourdon methodology
The software engineering methodology developed by Edward Yourdon and colleagues in the 1970s and 1980s. "Yourdon methodology" is a generic term for all of the following methodologies: Yourdon/Demarco, Yourdon/Constantine, Coad/Yourdon.
Last updated: 1995-04-07
Your mileage may vary
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(YMMV) The disclaimer American car manufacturers attached to EPA mileage ratings. A humourous way of saying that the thing under discussion will not necessarily give you the same results as the author. Often used to convey the hardware dependence of Unix freeware distributions.
[Jargon File]Last updated: 2012-02-16
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You aren't gonna need it ♦ Yourdon ♦ Yourdon/Constantine ♦ Yourdon/Demarco
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