Tom DeMarco explained

Tom DeMarco
Birth Date:20 August 1940
Birth Place:Hazleton, Pennsylvania, U.S.
Field:Computer science
Work Institutions:Bell Labs
Alma Mater:Cornell University, Columbia University, University of Paris
Known For:Structured analysis
Prizes:Stevens Award (1999)

Tom DeMarco (born August 20, 1940) is an American software engineer, author, and consultant on software engineering topics. He was an early developer of structured analysis in the 1970s.

Early life and education

Tom DeMarco was born in Hazleton, Pennsylvania. He received a BSEE degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University, a M.S. from Columbia University, and a diplôme from the University of Paris.[1]

Career

DeMarco started working at Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1963, where he participated in ESS-1 project to develop the first large scale Electronic Switching System, which became installed in telephone offices all over the world.[2] Later in the 1960s he started working for a French IT consulting firm, where he worked on the development of a conveyor system for the new merchandise mart at La Villette in Paris, and in the 1970s on the development of on-line banking systems in Sweden, Holland, France and New York.[3]

In the 1970s DeMarco was one of the major figures in the development of structured analysis and structured design in software engineering.[4] In January 1978 he published Structured Analysis and System Specification,[5] a major milestone in the field.

In the 1980s with Tim Lister, Stephen McMenamin, John F. Palmer, James Robertson and Suzanne Robertson, he founded the consulting firm "The Atlantic Systems Guild" in New York. The Guild developed into a New York- and London-based consulting company specializing in methods and management of software development.

DeMarco has lectured and consulted throughout the Americas, Europe, Africa, Australia and the Far East.[6]

He is a member of the ACM and a Fellow of the IEEE. He lives in Camden, Maine, and is a principal of the Atlantic Systems Guild, and a fellow and Senior Consultant of the Cutter Consortium.[1] DeMarco was the 1986 recipient of the Warnier Prize for "lifetime contribution to the field of computing", and the 1999 recipient of the Stevens Award for "contribution to the methods of software development".[1]

Publications

Tech and Business Books

Mainstream Fiction

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: The Atlantic Systems Guild . Tom DeMarco . 8 October 2022.
  2. Tom DeMarco (2002) Structured Analysis: Beginnings of a New Discipline In: sd&m Conference 2001, Software Pioneers Eds.: M. Broy, E. Denert, Springer 2002.
  3. http://www.unt.edu/cdit/3.0/demarco.htm Tom DeMarco
  4. Encyclopedia: Ward . Paul T. . Structured Analysis . Allen Kent . Allen Kent . James G. Williams. Encyclopedia of Microcomputers: Volume 17 - Strategies in the Microprocess Industry to TCP/IP Internetworking: Concepts: Architecture: Protocols, and Tools . 13 October 1995 . Taylor & Francis . 978-0-8247-2715-4. 51–89.
  5. Book: DeMarco, Tom . Structured Analysis and System Specification . 1978 . Yourdon . 978-0-917072-07-9 .
  6. Web site: Tom DeMarco . Dorset House Publishing . 28 October 2013.
  7. Book: 978-0321934116. Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams. Demarco. Tom. Lister. Timothy R.. 2013. Pearson Education .
  8. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Slack: Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency. . 2001 . Broadway Books . New York . 978-0767907699.
  9. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Hruschka . Peter . Lister . Timothy R. . McMenamin . Steve . Robertson . James . Robertson . Suzanne . Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work . 2021 . New Atlantic.
  10. Book: DeMarco, Tom. Hruschka, Peter. Lister, Timothy R.. McMenamin, Steve . Robertson, James . Robertson, Suzanne. Adrenaline Junkies and Template Zombies. Addison-Wesley Professional. 2013. 9780133492279.
  11. Book: Tom DeMarco . Timothy Lister . amp . Waltzing with Bears: Managing Risk on Software Project. Dorset House . 0932633609 . 2003 .
  12. Book: DeMarco . Tom . The Deadline (A Novel About Project Management) . 1997 . Dorset House . New York.
  13. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Why Does Software Cost So Much? (And Other Puzzles of the Information Age) . 1995 . Dorset House . New York . 978-0932633347.
  14. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Controlling Software Projects: Management, Measurement and Estimation . 1982 . Prentice Hall . Englewood Cliffs, NJ.
  15. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Concise Notes on Software Engineering . 1980 . Yourdon Press . New York . 0-917072-16-2.
  16. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Structured Analysis and System Specification . 1979 . Prentice Hall . Englewood Cliffs, NJ . 978-0138543808.
  17. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Lister . Timothy . Software State of the Art: Selected Papers . 1990 . Dorset House . New York . 978-0932633149.
  18. Book: DeMarco . Tom . The One-Way Time Traveler . 2019 . Artful Press . 978-0-9892820-4-8.
  19. Book: DeMarco . Tom . A Ruby Beam of Light . 2016 . Double Dragon . 978-1535437486.
  20. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Airship Nation . 2016 . Double Dragon . 978-1542459471.
  21. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Als auf der Welt das Licht ausging . 2015 . Carl Hanser Verlag . Munich . 978-3446439603.
  22. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Dark Harbor House . 2001 . Down East Books . 978-0892725113.
  23. Book: DeMarco . Tom . Lieutenant America and Miss Apple Pie . 2003 . Down East Books . 978-0892725861.

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