Jeffrey L. Whitten (born c. 1955) is an American computer scientist, and professor of information technology at Purdue University, known with Kevin C. Dittman and Lonnie D. Bentley as co-author of the textbook Systems Analysis and Design Methods, which is now in its 7th edition.
[2] After graduation Whitten started his academic career at the Purdue University computer technology department as assistant professor, where he developed the systems analysis and design curriculum.
In 1984 he was promoted assistant professor and started with Lonnie D. Bentley developing the curriculum into book Systems Analysis and Design Methods, first published in 1988 by Irwin/McGraw-Hill.
From 2003 to 2010 Whitten was also associate vice president for IT enterprise applications (ITEA) at Purdue.
[2] Whitten research interests are in the fields of business process modeling, enterprise architecture frameworks and "Systems and computational thinking and its practical applications to systems development.