RICHARD T. DUÉ is the President of Thomsen Dué and Associates Limited, a training and consulting firm specializing in object technology. Richard develops and presents courses focused on object technology project management, object-oriented analysis and design, and object-oriented design patterns, and provides mentoring services to organizations migrating to object technology. He has more than 30 years of IT experience as a programmer, analyst, manager, consultant, teacher, and author, and is a frequent, highly rated speaker at conferences such as TOOLS and OOPSLA.