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3 unusual facts about Larry Constantine


Larry Constantine

Constantine trained under family therapy pioneers David Kantor and Fred and Bunny Duhl at the Boston Family Institute, completing a two-year post-graduate certificate program in 1973.

Structured analysis

SA and SD were accompanied by notational methods including structure charts, data flow diagrams and data model diagrams, of which there were many variations, including those developed by Tom DeMarco, Ken Orr, Larry Constantine, Vaughn Frick, Ed Yourdon, Steven Ward, Peter Chen, and others.

Data flow diagrams were invented by Larry Constantine, developer of structured design, based on Martin and Estrin's "data flow graph" model of computation.


Cap Gemini SDM

SDM, SDM2, SDM/70 and Spectrum more notably evolved into system development methodologies that were based on the works of Steven Ward, Tom Demarco, Larry Constantine, Ken Orr, Ed Yourdon, Michael A. Jackson and others as well as data modeling techniques developed by Thomas Bachmann and Peter Chen.

Central and Eastern European Software Engineering Conference in Russia

The list of keynote/invited/panel speakers from previous CEE-SECR’s includes: Thomas Erl, Bjarne Stroustrup, Erich Gamma, Richard Soley, Igor Agamirzian, Grady Booch, Lars Bak, Alexander L. Wolf, Yuri Gurevich, Victor Ivannikov, Stephen Mellor, Larry Constantine, Ivar Jacobson, Rick Kazman, Michael Cusumano and other leading figures in the software field.


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