Tom Gilb is widely recognised in the systems and software engineering worlds as a pioneer in management and planning methods. He has published nine books, several of them regarded as landmark classics in the software engineering field.

Tom’s “Competitive Engineering”  book describes the purposely-developed language ‘Planguage’ for planning and requirements definition. Planguage forms the toolset for achieving Competitive Engineering.

His past books include “Principles of Software Engineering Management” (POSEM). Tom is the world-leading authority on Evolutionary Project Management (Evo) and POSEM remains today the most widely referenced source on Evo.

In 1993, he co-authored the “Software Inspection” book which laid the foundation for what was to become today’s Specification Quality Control, the ‘Agile’ Inspection and Review Process.

Tom has consulted and taught the concepts and principles of Competitive Engineering at many multinational corporations and government agencies in the US, UK and mainland Europe.