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	Software Dioxide: The 10 Most Powerful Principles for Quality in Software and Software Organizations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gilb lists the series of faults you are likely to find for each critical factor and says that our entire culture and literature of software requirements systematically fails to account for a majority of critical factors.
		Gilb says that our ability to define critical breakdown levels of performance and manage successful delivery is destroyed at the outset.
		Gilb concludes by saying that people should be motivated toward real results by giving them numeric feedback frequently and freedom to use any solution that gives those results.
	www.softwaredioxide.com /Channels/ConView.asp?id=7143 (608 words)

	Tom Gilb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In my version on software history Tom is the true founder of Agile Methods, with I suppose Dan Ingalls and Alan Kay, whom Tom met in the pretty early days of Parc if I remember rightly.
		But Tom's understanding of what he called Evolutionary Delivery was so far ahead of its time that I guess it didn't really matter to anyone.
		Tom De Marco has been the best that I remember in acknowledging how Tom was ignored by most of the gurus of the era, including himself.
	clublet.com /why?TomGilb (158 words)

	gilbintroduction
		Tom Gilb was born in Pasadena in 1940, emigrated to London 1956, and to Norway 1958, where he joined IBM for 5 years, and where he resides when not traveling.
		Kai Gilb was born in Norway in 1968.
		Tor Gilb was born in Oslo Norway in 1966.
	home.c2i.net /result-planning/Pages/2ndLevel/gilbintroduction.html (860 words)

	Gilb Competitive Engineering Courses
		All of this, and more, was the subject of some Tom and Kai Gilb courses that I attended in London during September 2003 which were arranged by Etude Consulting.
		The questions may not be what Tom uses when he is consulting, or even what he intended to have people ask during the process, but they are what I asked myself during the course exercises.
		Tom and Kai are overly generous in providing supplementary information on CD for the course participants.
	www.compendiumdev.co.uk /essays/gilb/gilbcourses.php (1851 words)

	DACS Broadcast No. 7 - Advanced System Requirements Specification Seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gilb will present an innovative and fresh approach to system requirements that is distinguished by its level of quantification and based on a defined specification "language" that introduces rigor and clarity to any specification process.
		Gilb's course is tailored to a DoD audience and is useful at any level for establishing objectives, goals, requirements, and contract and acquisition specifications.
		Tom Gilb is president of Result Planning, Ltd., and is author and co-author of several books, including Software Metrics, Data Engineering (1975), Humanized Input (with Gerald M. Weinberg, 1977), Principles of Software Engineering Management (1988), and Software Inspection (with Dorothy Graham, 1993).
	www.dacs.dtic.mil /awareness/broadcasts/broadcast7-SPMNcourse.shtml (611 words)

	Methods & Tools Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom Gilb has argued the case for quantitative objectives and use of evolutionary methods over many years.
		Gilb suggests that this is in the range of 5-20.
		Gilb’s definition of priority is that it is the "determination of the relative claim on limited resources" [GILB04].
	www.methodsandtools.com /archive/archive.php?id=6 (6570 words)

	Software Inspection Review
		Gilb and Graham augment this common practice with a strong and valuable emphasis on feeding inspection data into process improvement.
		In code inspections, providing a rule (as Gilb and Graham do) that says "The document (code) must meet all relevant project requirements" is pretty much equivalent to saying "Then a miracle happens".
		Gilb and Graham allow for checklists that expand on the rules.
	www.testing.com /writings/reviews/gilb-inspection.html (1648 words)

	Tom Gilb - TheBestLinks.com - Author, IBM, Norway, 1993, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom Gilb, Author, IBM, Norway, 1993, 1960, 1988, 1956, 1940, 1958, London,...
		Tom Gilb (born 1940) in Pasadena, California, is the author of 9 books and has at least 4 more drafted.
		He is currently a consultant, teacher and author in partnership with his Norwegian son Kai Gilb.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Tom_Gilb.html (215 words)

	Software Inspection Team Leader Course, by Tom Gilb
		Tom Gilb's version of Inspection is a substantial extension and improvement over the original inspection method of Michael Fagan (early 70's).
		This public course is suited for those who intend to become inspection team leader, who will implement an inspection process, or people who have the responsibility for selecting innovative software engineering ideas for their organization.
		This course gives a thorough overview of the Advanced Software Inspection method, developed by Tom Gilb, his colleagues and clients in the past 23 years.
	www.spipartners.nl /data/train_course_gilbinspect_en.html (799 words)

	Systems Engineering Courses - Tom Gilb
		Tom had five papers published at the INCOSE 2003 International Symposium.
		Tom's new book manuscripts “Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems and Software Engineering management using Planguage” and “EVO (Evolutionary Project Management)” are available from his web site as free downloads.
		The focus however is on a subset which is 100 times less expensive and arguably as powerful as the traditional inspection methods.
	www.incose.org.uk /courses-gilb.htm (994 words)

	Requirements Specification Quality Control (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The “economic” definition comes from Tom Gilb, and says, the defect would cost substantially more to deal with downstream, compared with fixing it now, whether or not it becomes visible to the customer.
		Gilb suggests [GIL1993 and elsewhere] that beginner inspectors are no better than 30% effective on any kind of document, whereas experienced inspectors have 85% effectiveness (in a single pass) in finding requirements document defects.
		Gilb also reports on studies by Air Co. (UK, 1995), indicating that inspecting requirements documents at a rate of 120 words per hour disclosed twice as many Major defects as inspections conducted at 600 words per hour [GIL1997b].
	www.softed.co.nz /news/rsqc.htm (3584 words)

	DACS - Data & Analysis Center for Software - DACS - Software (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gilb, Tom Tom Gilb has published eight books, including the early coining of the term "Software Metrics" (1976) which is the basis for SEI CMM Level 4.
		Among her publications is the CAST Report which surveys and categorises computer aided software testing tools.
		She is also co-author of the book Software Inspection with Tom Gilb and the second Software Test Automation with Mark Fewster.
	www.dacs.dtic.mil /databases/url/key.hts?keycode=165:1946&islowerlevel=1 (693 words)

	Evolutionary Project Management, Two Days Course, by Tom & Kai Gilb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom has written several books including "Principles of Software Engineering Management", "Software Inspection" and "Competitive Engineering".
		Did his first course with Tom 1986, and started full time work with him in 1992, teaching, running workshops, consulting, starting up projects, saving projects, solving problems, lecturing, editing books and articles, writing course and lecture materials etc.
		Some of his contributions to the methods are to broaden the scope and at the same time focusing on essential fundamentals.
	www.spipartners.nl /data/train_course_gilbprojman_en.html (1020 words)

	ICSPI 2006 Tutorial Schedule
		Tom Gilb is recognized as one of the earliest pioneers, writing the first books and papers about the Evolutionary Project management subject 30 years ago (Larman and Basili 2003, IEEE Software), and as one of the inspirations for the iterative process used by all Agile methods (Beck, Larman, Highsmith and others).
		Tom is primarily a practical person, but has taken a step back to analyze the essential processes that make Evolutionary project management work so well.
		Find out why Tom's Evo method has been used, on many dozens of product development projects, since 1988 at HP (Corporate Wide), and has been proven by 2 scientific studies (MIT) on the decade-plus of HP project data.
	www.icspi.com /tutorials-m.htm (1847 words)

	Software Tech E-News: Software Inspections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom Gilb Presentations (http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/consulting/sw_testing/templates.html) Mostly ZIPped files of Powerpoint slides for Tom Gilb's courses on inspections, requirements, etc. Maintained on the Software Technology Support Center server.
		Improving Inspections (http://www.pp.ph.ed.ac.uk/Exp/rc/moose/inspect/inspect.html) This article, by Rosemary Candlin, presents some thoughts she had after reading two books - `Software Inspection' by Tom Gilb and Dorothy Graham, and, to a lesser extent 'A Discipline of Software Engineering' by Watts Humphrey.
		Their program is based largely on the teachings of Tom Gilb.
	www.softwaretechnews.com /enews/enews3-inspections.html (1206 words)

	ASQ: Areas of Use: Education
		The overall aims are to identify defects, to identify patterns in the introduction of defects (leading to process improvement), to help train individuals to avoid creating defects, and to assist team building.
		SQC is a direct weapon for risk reduction (Gilb and Graham 1993; Gilb 2000).
		Tom Gilb is the author of Principles of Software Engineering Management (1988) and Software Inspection (1993).
	www.asq.org /pub/sqp/past/vol4_issue4/gilb.html (5226 words)

	meetings_past
		Tom explained how with our current culture there are problems with the general current specification of qualitative requirements.
		However, Tom's experience (over more than thirty years) is that it can always be achieved.
		Tom wrapped up his presentation by going through several examples of qualitative requirements and clearly showed each could be quantified.
	www.saspin.org /meetings_past_99-00.htm (2521 words)

	PSQT Conference - Keynote Speakers
		Tom Gilb won the award for Best Tutorial Speaker, of 18 different tutorials, December 2003 Eurostar Conference, Amsterdam.
		Tom Gilb is an international consultant, teacher and author.
		Gilb is recognized as one of the pioneers of teaching and writing about Evo methods (example Wiki encyclopedia, Craig Larman's History of Iterative methods IEEE Computer, June 2003) and Larman's Book on Iterative methods, By Kent Beck as inspiration for the XP development cycles etc.)
	www.psqtconference.com /2005west/keynote.php (572 words)

	QW2000 -- Conference Presentation Summary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		A reliability measure, such as MTBF in customer operational conditions, would be much more appropriate (as availability is a function of reliability (failure rate) and maintainability (fixing speed)).
		Tom Gilb is an independent consultant, teacher and author.
		Tom coined the term 'Software Metrics' with the publication of his book of the same name in 1976 (European edition) and 1977 (USA edition).
	www.soft.com /QualWeek/QW2K/Papers/4Q.html (380 words)

	Book Review: Gilb & Graham: Software Inspection
		It covers history, costs and benefits, the process, the roles, and the difficulties; and it includes six informative and varied case studies contributed by other authors.
		Gilb and Graham include in the process a causal analysis of defects, with feedback to improve the process itself.
		Chunky as it is, it might be allowed another fifty pages if Gilb and Graham could – please – explain their success.
	www.btinternet.com /~adrian.larner/review/gilb.htm (339 words)

	Tom Gilb Evolutionary Project Management seminar (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		International consultant Tom Gilb, is the world’s leading exponent and authority on Evo.
		He will update you on the latest ‘Agile’ version of Evo, and on the experience of well-known corporations such as IBM and government organizations such as the US Department of Defense, in applying Evo.
		Tom also recounts many other successful case studies of his Evo project work in his seminal book “The Principles of Software Engineering Management” (POSEM) published by Addison Wesley.
	www.btt-research.com /evolutionary_delivery_tom_gilb.htm (423 words)

	Overview Evo Principles
		This is an overview of 10 Evo process principles originally intended for participants of the Tom and Kai Gilb February 2002 training sessions with a US customer.
		The intent is to allow our participants to get their mind in gear for the courses.
		It may be used freely with credit to Tom and Kai.
	www.xs4all.nl /~nrm/EvoPrinc (350 words)

	Evolutionary Object Management, third draft 5 Sept 1996,Tom Gilb, RQM!, Ulenius
		The author was on a project team at HP about 1990 which Gilb taught early versions of the Planguage method.
		The author was on a project team at HP in 1989 which Gilb taught early versions of the Planguage method.
		Tom Gilb was born in California 1940, Joined IBM 1958 Norway, became a freelance consultant 1960.
	hem.bredband.net /andule/evoarti1.htm (3880 words)

	International Conference on Practical Software Quality and Testing (PSQT'2005 West)
		James Whittaker, Linda Hayes, Tom Gilb, Robin Goldsmith, JD, Mary R. Sweeney and Marnie Hutcheson.
		Tom Igielski, The Thomas Consulting Group, Inc. * Project Management ‘Atkins’ Way, Nidhi Srivastava, Tata Consultancy Services * Strategic Quality - Planned Empowerment, Jeff Fiebrich, Motorola Requirement Management ====================== * No Requirements Writer is an Island, Erin Nardo, MENTTIUM Corporation Security ========= * Embedding Security into a Software Development Methodology, Carol Woody, Ph.
		Additionally, many featured presentations given by nationally known experts in the field of software quality are offered as well as workshops which allow everyone to directly participate in the week-long program in their own way, customizing their learning experience.
	www.cs.kuleuven.ac.be /~dirk/ada-belgium/events/05/050502-psqt.html (4667 words)

	UPGRADE: Vol. IV, Issue no. 4, August 2003 (Software Engineering - State of an Art) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		With a view to contributing to a better understanding of the current state of practice and evolution of this discipline, we have decided to publish what we hope is an interesting set of papers covering different areas of interest related to the application of engineering principles to software development and maintenance.
		Adding Stakeholder Metrics to Agile Projects”, by Tom Gilb is a keen analysis of the implications of the new agile methods in the field of software development.
		Gilb has been a well-known expert on software project management and quality assurance (e.g.
	www.upgrade-cepis.org /issues/2003/4/upgrade-vIV-4.html (3103 words)

	Impact Estimation Tables - Dec 98 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom Gilb immigrated from California to Europe in 1956.
		Gilb, Tom, "Requirements-Driven Management Using Planguage," http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/SWTesting/gilb.asp, http://www.result-planning.com, 1995-1996.
		Gilb, Tom, Principles of Software Engineering Management, Addison-Wesley Longman, Boston, Mass., 1988.
	www.stsc.hill.af.mil /crosstalk/1998/12/gilb.asp (2469 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Principles of Software Engineering Management: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Gilb covers only a small portion of "Software Engineering Management" in detail.
		Gilb introduces three ideas that may not be new, but extremely useful for software projects.
		Evolutionary delivery, or delivering small parts all the time, while getting feedback; formal inspections, which will save time and hassle; attribute specifications, to help you set a clear goal.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0201192462 (650 words)

	Software QA Days Seminar - November 01, 2004
		The seminar, Why Software Projects Fail, How to Diagnose Potential Failure and How to Make your Projects Sucessful, was delivered by the distinguished consultant Tom Gilb and dealt with issues of quality for software development processes.
		One such application, developed by Tom Gilb, is Evolutionary Project Management (Evo).
		Some of the useful ideas that were discussed at the seminar are now being brought to life in the DataArt QA department.
	www.dataart.com /company/dataart/news20041101.htm (244 words)

	Past SPIN Meetings - 2001 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Tom Gilb is the author of 8 books in systems and software engineering, like Principles of Software Engineering Management.
		Gilb has experience with both very large and small projects for decades.
		The hallmark of Tom's practice is guiding organizations through the process of integrating software measurement with model-based assessment programs to yield effective and efficient process improvement programs.
	www.software.org /dcspin/Past_Mtgs2001.html (3502 words)

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