At its meeting in October 1969 the I.F.I.P. General Assembly authorised the establishment of a Working Group on Programming Methodology. Strachey served as a member of Working Group 2.3 from its inception. See note by M. Woodger, Chairman of Working Group 2.3, 22 December 1969, on the origin and background of the Working Group.

Includes correspondence, lists of members, notices of meetings, agenda, informal minutes (including extensive sets of informal notes by the chairman) of the 1st meeting, Copenhagen, March 1970 (17 pages), and the 8th meeting, Munich, December 1974 (62 pages).