- Tom Gilb
Tom Gilb (born 1940 in
Pasadena, California ) is an Americansystems engineer andauthor .Biography
Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in
Pasadena, California . He emigrated to theUnited Kingdom in 1956 and toNorway in 1958. He took his first job withIBM in 1958 and became afreelance consultant in 1960.He is currently a consultant, teacher and author, in partnership with his Norwegian son
Kai Gilb . He mainly helps multinational clients improve their organizations and methods by usingevolutionary systems delivery ("Evo").He is a member of
INCOSE and is active in the Norwegian chapter, NORSEC, which presented him with an award in 2003. He frequently lectures at INCOSE local chapters on his worldwide travels and at INCOSE conferences.Work
Juicy Bits First
Tom Gilb came up with the "Juicy Bits First" principle:
* "If you deliver the juiciest bits of the project first, you will be forgiven for not providing all they dreamt about, or for not doing it as cheaply and quickly as they hoped."This principle is used in
agile software development , such asextreme programming .Publications
Gilb has written 9 books and several articles. A selection:
* 1993, "Software Inspection (book)|Software Inspection", ISBN 0-201-63181-4
* 1988 "Principles of Software Engineering Management", ISBN 0-201-19246-2: now in 19th printing).
* 2005, "Competitive Engineering : A Handbook for Systems & Software Engineering Management usingPlanguage ", ISBN 0-7506-6507-6 (2005).References
* [http://www.gilb.com www.gilb.com]
External links
* [http://www.gilb.com homepage]
* http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/2003/08/06/#juicyBits
* [http://csdl2.computer.org/comp/mags/so/2006/04/s4100.pdf Review of "Competitive Engineering" by Stuart James Woodward]
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