Wayne Stevens (software engineer)

[1] Stevens grew up in Missouri, spent two years in India, where he attended the Woodstock School, and earned his M.S.

He eventually became the chief architect of application development methodology for IBM's consulting group.

The annual Stevens Award Lecture on Software Development Methods is named after him.

He belonged to the IEEE and the ACM as well as the following honorary societies: Tau Beta Pi, Sigma Xi, and Eta Kappa Nu.

He also worked with John Paul Morrison to refine and promote the concepts of what is now called Flow-based programming, including descriptions of FBP in several of these references.