Tom Gilb is the author of 10 books, and hundreds of papers, on requirements, design, project management and related subjects. In 1993, ‘Software Inspection’. His 2005 book ‘Competitive Engineering’ is a substantial definition – and set of template standards for quantified requirements, design, project management, and quality control ideas. In 2016 he E-pubbed his new ‘management’ book after 2 years of writing work: ’Value Planning’. He is widely cited as the pioneer of the Agile rapid development cycle [Principles of Software Engineering Management", 1988]. His own agile method, the original one - is called 'Evo'. It is successfully used as a front end to Scrum. See www.Gilb.com for more detail. In 2012 He was named ‘Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society’ (Hon. FBCS).
Chapters:
- - Dave introduces the show and Tom Gilb
- - Tom's business with his son, Kai
- - Recognition for Tom's work and his focus on value and engineering
- - The meaning of software engineering
- - Tom's discovery of iterative development via common sense
- - How Tom views the meaning of value
- - Quantification for clarification
- - Quantification and measurement
- - Tom's career transitions
- - The nature of architecture
- - Tom's story of failure - limiting the scope of failure and an ambitious mission to turn software development into a real engineering discipline
- - Tom's success story - impact of the principles in his books, his ideas taking hold in real organizations
- - Tom's book recommendation, Elon Musk, the joy of owning a Tesla, consumer value, and dreaming big
- - The things that have Tom most excited
- - Tom's lifestyle
- - Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value
- - Keeping up with Tom
Resources:
- Tom's Website
- Value Planning - Use Coupon Code: FIRE
- Competitive Engineering
- Jerry Weinberg on Developer On Fire
- Kai Gilb
- Principles Of Software Engineering Management - Tom Gilb
- Manifesto for Agile Software Development
- Healthcare in Norway
- Lord Kelvin
- Lord Kelvin's Quote
- Quantify the un-quantifiable: Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim
- Programming with Plugboards
- Tom's Talk on What's Wrong with Architecture
- John Sonmez on Developer On Fire
- Leonardo da Vinci
- René Descartes
- Dan North on .NET Rocks! - Articulated Surgeon Who Says You Don't Need Surgery (starting at 46:10)
- Electric Cars in Norway
- World Happiness Report 2017
- Austin Bingham on Developer On Fire
Tom's book recommendation:
Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value:
- Define the values quantitatively
- Experiment with ways of getting those values, dumping ways that don't work
- Think of what values are being achieved and at what costs
- Read Tom's Value Planning book