JAMES ROBERTSON has worked on almost every type of
commercial data processing project. His experience has
led him to write numerous seminars and papers that are
well respected as sources of new software development
ideas. As well as teaching his seminars, he now works
at advising companies on how to adapt modern software
development techniques to fit specific projects, and
how to effectively transfer the new technologies to
the software developers within the organization.
His career started in 1969 when he was part of a team
building one of the first Australian on-line banking
systems to use a minicomputer as the host for a terminal
network. James moved on to head up the data processing
department of Time-Life Australia. Here he added managerial
skills to his growing portfolio of projects.
Since then he has formed a solid partnership with his
wife, Suzanne,
to consult on numerous large-scale projects in Europe
and the United States. Among these was the analysis
of a television air-time sales system for one of the
independent television companies. This was later adapted
to become the case study for their ground-breaking book
Complete Systems Analysis:
The Workbook, the Textbook, the Answers (Dorset
House, 1994).
James continually investigates ways of how to make
abstract concepts accessible and useful to systems builders.
During the last five years, his research has focused
on the development of object-oriented systems, use of
client/server and technology transfer techniques.
In partnership with Tom DeMarco,
Tim Lister, Steve McMenamin,
and John Palmer, James and Suzanne founded the Atlantic
System Guild in 1983. The guild is a New York and
London based think tank for the advancement of system
development techniques. Guild principals have written
numerous books and seminars that are among the most
successful in software development history.
James studied architecture at the University of New
South Wales, and Information Processing at the New South
Wales Institute of Technology. When he is not researching
and developing software, James can be found on the skiing
or photographing nature in the French Alps.
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