Tom Gilb

Tom Gilb (born 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American systems engineer and author.

Biography

Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in Pasadena, California. 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 a consultant, teacher and author, in partnership with his Norwegian son Kai Gilb. He mainly helps multinational clients improve their organizations and methods by using evolutionary 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 as extreme 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 using Planguage", 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]