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Jim Highsmith Looking Back and Looking Forward

Engineering Culture by InfoQ

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The Rise of Structured Methods in the 1980s

In the 1980s, data flow diagrams were used to map out processes within an organization. The case tool era hit in the late 80s, early 90s and drove into the next era. In fact, one of the reasons case tools ran into trouble is there was an idea back then that once you got the diagrams done, you could generate code from them - which wasn't true.

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