tom demarco 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 ms from columbia university and a diplme from the university of paris at the sorbonne career demarco started working at bell telephone laboratories in 1963 where he participated in ess1 project to develop the first large scale electronic switching system which became installed in telephone offices all over the world in the 1970s demarco was one of the major figures in the development of structured analysis and structured design in software engineering 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 firm initially shared offices with the dorset house publisher edward yourdon their company developed into a new york and londonbased 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 he is a member of the acm and a fellow of the ieee he lives in camden maine and is personal life in his spare time demarco is an emergency medical technician certified by his home state and by the national registry of emts publications demarco has authored over nine books and 100 papers on project management and software development a selection 1979 structured analysis and system specification prentice hall isbn0138543801 1986 controlling software projects management measurement and estimates prentice hall isbn0131717111 1987 peopleware productive projects and teams with timothy lister dorset house isbn9780932633439 1997 the deadline a novel about project management dorset house isbn9780932633392 2001 slack getting past burnout busywork and the myth of total efficiency isbn9780767907699 2002 the agile methods fray ieee software 356 2003 waltzing with bears managing risk on software projects with tim lister dorset house in march 2003 isbn9780932633606 2008 adrenaline junkies and template zombies understanding patterns of project behavior with peter hruschka tim lister suzanne robertson james robertson steve mcmenamin isbn9780932633675 2009 software engineering an idea whose time has come and gone ieee software viewpoints julyaugust 2009 pages 9495 2013 andronescus paradox amazon digital services inc asin b00c9gvdy0 software metric software quality structured systems analysis and design method wikiquote has quotations related to tom demarco tom demarcos home page the atlantic systems guild website cutter consortium website vtesoftware engineeringfields computer programming requirements engineering software deployment software design software maintenance software testing systems analysis formal methods concepts data modeling enterprise architecture functional specification modeling language orthogonality programming paradigm software software archaeology software architecture software configuration management software development methodology software development process software quality software quality assurance software verification and validation structured analysis orientations agile aspectoriented object orientation ontology service orientation sdlc modelsdevelopmental agile eup executable uml incremental model iterative model prototype model rad up scrum spiral model vmodel waterfall model xp other spice cmmi data model er model function model information model metamodeling object model systems model view model languages idef uml usl sysml softwareengineers victor basili kent beck grady booch fred brooks barry boehm peter chen danese cooper ward cunningham tom demarco edsger w dijkstra delores m etter martin fowler adele goldstine margaret hamilton c a r hoare lois haibt mary jean harrold grace hopper watts humphrey michael a jackson ivar jacobson alan kay nancy leveson stephen j mellor bertrand meyer david parnas trygve reenskaug winston w royce james rumbaugh mary shaw peri tarr elaine weyuker niklaus wirth edward yourdon related fields computer science computer engineering project management risk management systems engineering category commons authority control worldcat identities acm dl 81330489860 bibsys 90153427 bnf cb12218657j data dblp 665399 gnd 112180965 isni 0000 0000 8355 878x lccn n78049465 musicbrainz b435bbd1519d440eb4d7cb43a83878ab ndl 00437644 snac w65z7mzp sudoc 030854431 viaf 9899304 