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◆ People. ◆ PM. ◥ University. {q} PhD. {t} Themes. {t} PM. ⬛ Zachman. MDX-M: BIS4408. ◇ Niels Malotaux. ◇ Lech Krzanik. ◇ Lindsey Brodie. ◇ Margaret Ross. ◇ Elli Georgiadou. Tom Gilb. Tom Gilb (born 1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes. Biography[edit] Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in Pasadena, California, USA. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1956 and to Norway in 1958. He took his first job with IBM in 1958 and became a freelance consultant in 1960. He is currently[when?] He is a member of INCOSE and is active in the Norwegian chapter, NORSEC, which presented him with an award in 2003.

In 2012 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society.[2] Publications[edit] Gilb has written nine books and several articles. Software Inspection (book)|Software Inspection, 1993. References[edit] External links[edit] About Tom Gilb and Kai Gilb. Biographical Summary Tom Gilb was born in Pasadena in 1940, emigrated to London 1956, and to Norway 1958, where he joined IBM for 5 years, and where he resides, and works, when not traveling extensively.

He has mainly worked within the software engineering community, but since 1983 with Corporate Top Management problems, and since 1988 with large-scale systems engineering (Aircraft, Telecoms and Electronics). He is an independent teacher, consultant and writer. He has published nine books, including the early coining of the term "Software Metrics" (1976) which is the recognized foundation ideas for IBM CMM/SEI CMM/CMMI Level 4.

He wrote "Principles of Software Engineering Management" (1988, in 2006 in 20th printing), and "Software Inspection" (1993, about 14th printing). Both titles are really systems engineering books in software disguise. He is a frequent keynote speaker, invited speaker, panelist, and tutorial speaker at international conferences. He has published hundreds of papers. Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb. Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb. Value Requirements Workshop 2011. ☝️ Gilb.

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▶️ Gilb. 2023-03-13 - The Impact Estimation Tool (IET) Registration, Mon 13 Mar 2023 at 18:30. Tom was born in California 1940, lived in the UK 1956-58, Norway 1958 to present. He joined IBM 1958. Consulted for a very wide variety of organisations, and managed to influence some of them in interesting and well documented ways. Tom is an Honorary Fellow of BCS. See Gilb.com for more details. He has held many courses at BCS for many years. Tom is the author of many books and hundreds of papers on these and related subjects. There are very many organizations and individuals who use some or all of Gilb methods. ☢️ Agile. Agile London. Agile Record. c0re Magazine. TSG | Testing Solutions Group.

ISO - International Organization for Standardization. Talk by Iain McKenna: Agile Project Management – BCS Oxfordshire. Slides available for download in our download section. Iain McKenna of Project Success gave the Oxfordshire Branch of BCS a most informative, interesting and relevant talk on 15 October on Agile Project Management. But it was more than this. It was about the Scrum systems development methodology – and how it addresses the concerns of rigour, reliability and scale in heavyweight (or overweight) SDMs such as PRINCE2. Agile is now a top business issue, not just a computing issue, because our global village is one of rapidly increasing change, and windows of opportunity are brief.

As for the traditional, heavyweight methodologies, how many projects do you know that have been delivered on-time and on-budget? As to the key concepts in Agile and Scrum here’s the Do-able Dozen: So what’s the big challenge in adopting Agile and Scrum? But here’s a surprising thing: some organisations are beginning to use Agile and Scrum outside and beyond systems development. :falling blossoms: organisational therapy services for knowledge-work organisations. EHiN eHelse i Norge.