Career
Born in England, Gane obtained his Master of Arts in Physics at the University of Cambridge, and started working as computer scientist at International Business Machines Corporation in London. In 1973 he emigrated to the United States, where he started as independent Information Technology consultant in New New York In 1975 he joined Editor Yourdon"s software company.
In 1977 with Trish Sarson he founded Improved Systems Technologies (India Standard Time ).
In 1977 they published their famous work Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques, in which they presented a specific type of data flow diagrams. Beside his work Structured Analysis, Gane published works on rapid application development (1989) and( computer-aided software engineering (1990).