Tom Gilb (born 1940 in Pasadena, California) is an American systems engineer and author. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. Systems engineering is an Interdisciplinary field of Engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created
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Biography
Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in Pasadena, California. Year 1940 ( MCMXL) was a Leap year starting on Monday (link will display the full 1940 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Pasadena ( is a city in Los Angeles County, California, United States. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1956 and to Norway in 1958. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Year 1956 ( MCMLVI) was a Leap year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Norway ( Norwegian: Norge ( Bokmål) or Noreg ( Nynorsk) officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Constitutional Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. He took his first job with IBM in 1958 and became a freelance consultant in 1960. International Business Machines Corporation abbreviated IBM and nicknamed "Big Blue", is a multinational Computer Technology Year 1958 ( MCMLVIII) was a Common year starting on Wednesday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. A freelancer, freelance worker, or freelance is a person who pursues a profession without a long-term commitment to any one employer Year 1960 ( MCMLX) was a Leap year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
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. The International Council on Systems Engineering or INCOSE (pronounced as in-co-see is a Non-profit membership organization dedicated to the advancement of 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. Agile software development refers to a group of Software development methodologies that are based on similar principles Extreme Programming (or XP) is a Software engineering methodology (and a form of Agile software development) Proponents of Extreme Programming and agile
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). Year 2005 ( MMV) was a Common year starting on Saturday (link displays full calendar of the Gregorian calendar.
References
External links
- homepage
- http://homepage.mac.com/keithray/blog/2003/08/06/#juicyBits
- Review of Competitive Engineering by Stuart James Woodward
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