Meilir Page-Jones is President and Senior Consulting Methodologist at Wayland Systems, and has extensive experience in training, consulting, and hands-on system development. He created several of Wayland's courses on object-oriented software engineering and project management, including The Synthesis Method for Object-Oriented Systems Development and Analysis and Design for Client/Server Systems Development. Formerly the head of the Structured Design Department at Yourdon Inc., Meilir wrote the best-selling Practical Guide to Structured Systems Design and Practical Project Management. He has also written numerous articles for the Journal of Object-Oriented Programming, Object Magazine, Software Development Magazine, and Computerworld, and has spoken at many conferences, including OOPSLA, Software Development, and Object Expo.