Career
Born in England, Sarson obtained her Bachelor in Zoology and Chemistry at the Royal Holloway, University of London in the 1960s. She emigrated to the United States in 1975, where she joined Editor Yourdon"s software company. In 1977 with Chris Gane she founded Improved Systems Technologies (India Standard Time ), which became a relatively large and successful company.
In 1977 they published their famous work Structured Systems Analysis: Tools and Techniques, in which they presented a specific type of data flow diagrams.