Edward Nash Yourdon ( - ) foi um consultor de computação, autor de várias obras e , e um pioneiro reconhecido na metodologia da Engenharia de Software de programação estruturada.
Publicações Yourdon é autor de mais de 550 artigos e de 26 livros desde 1967. Alguns deles são: 1967. Real-Time Systems Design. Information & Systems Press. 1972. Design of On-Line Computer Systems. sdfHall. 1975. Techniques of Program Structure and Design. Prentice Hall. 1976. Learning to Program in Structured COBOL, Part I and II. With C. Gane and T. Sarson and T. Lister. Prentice Hall. 1978. Learning to Program in Structured COBOL, Part II. With Timothy R. Lister. Prentice Hall. 1979. Structured Design. with Larry L. Constantine. Prentice Hall. 1979. Classics in Software Engineering . Prentice Hall. 1982. Writings of the Revolution. Prentice Hall. 1988. Managing the System Life Cycle. 2ª ed. Prentice Hall. 1989. Modern Structured Analysis. Prentice Hall. 1994. Decline and Fall of the American Programmer. Prentice Hall. 1994. Object-Oriented Systems Development: An Integrated Approach. Prentice Hall. 1996. Case Studies in Object-Oriented Analysis and Design. With Carl Argila. Prentice-Hall. 1999. The Complete Y2K Home Preparation Guide. With Robert Roskind. Prentice Hall.
Yourdon, Edward