Tom Gilb
Tom Gilb (1940) is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes.
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[edit] 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 son Kai Gilb. He mainly helps multinational clients improve their organizations and methods by using "evolutionary systems delivery" (Evo). He has "guest lectured at universities all over UK, Europe, China, India, USA, Korea – and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of technical conferences internationally".[1]
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.
[edit] 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). (Planguage is a formal, natural language modelling notation invented by Gilb that adds rigour to the requirement documentation.)
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