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Tom
Gilb is publicly recognised (ref: Larman and Basili 2003) as one of the pioneers
in developing and publicising the Evolutionary project management method.
His
“Principles of Software Engineering Management” book published in 1988,
remains today the most widely referenced source on Evolutionary Project
Management (Evo). He is credited with directly inspiring the use of the
method in Agile and Extreme Programming methods.
Tom directly consulted and taught Evo at HP and Boeing-Douglas in support
of their corporate-wide introduction of the method. Several other major
multinationals in the UK, mainland Europe and the USA, are in the start-up
phase with his help. For some, this early phase is characterised by
mastering better requirements and quality control methods using his planning
language, ‘Planguage’.
(Planguage was purposely developed as a means to
eliminate the vagueness and ambiguity that infects the planning work in so
many organisations. Planguage is described in detail in his “Competitive
Engineering” book).
In addition large-scale projects at major corporations have been ‘rescued’
using Evo. Examples include Ericsson and Siemens. Many projects have
successfully used Evo under our guidance. Simultaneously, other projects
using conventional methods in the same working environments, failed.
The statistically proven success of Evo at HP has most recently been
studied, with 12 years of data, in a paper published in
IEEE Software by Prof. MacCormack of Harvard Business School.
Some years ago, Tom was invited by the US Department of Defense (DOD) to
consult on Evo and worked on projects with them. Later, the DoD adopted
Evolutionary Acquisition as the development method standard and now forbids
the conventional, ’Waterfall’ method-based project management approaches in
DoD development world.
Kai Gilb has worked with Tom, teaching and consulting on Evolutionary
projects for over 10 years. Kai will co-teach and be available for offline
discussions during the seminar.
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