Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield

Foreword by Chris Winter

I joined the computer industry as a computer programmer, straight from school, in 1969. During a career that has spanned nearly 40 years, I have worked primarily in the area of applications development and systems integration. I wrote my first application in 1969; it was a Computer Aided Design (CAD) graphics application for hardware engineers to design Printed Circuit Boards. This application gave the board designer a tool with the necessary physical rules of the electronic components and how they could be used. In the early 1970s, I developed CAD and other applications to assist building architects in designing large public buildings, such as schools and hospitals. These systems assisted the architects and civil engineers ...