A seminar by Tom Gilb

Who should attend
Those who find this course particularly beneficial include:

• CTOs, CIOs, IT Directors, Engineering Directors, Senior Technical Management

• Business Planning Managers, Business Case Reviewers

• Programme Directors/Managers, Project Managers, Project Leaders

• Quality Executives, Quality Assurance & Quality Control Practitioners

• System Architects, Analysts, Designers, Planners, Testing Managers, Technical Authors

• Consultants in Systems and Software Engineering, IT, Project Management

• Academics researching and working in the field of Systems and Software Engineering

Why you should attend
All too many systems and software engineering projects are doomed even before they leave the drawing board. They will exceed budgets, miss critical deadlines and fail to meet their requirements. A major cause for this familiar scenario is the large number of errors, defects and omissions is the untrained thinking in the original planning. This course addresses the problem.

International consultant, teacher and author, Tom Gilb, has investigated this subject over many years.

His collaboration and research with many of the world’s best-known multinational corporations has led to this somewhat worrying finding: there are over 100 major defects on each significant page of specifications, requirements and even contractual documents. The same defect densities apply to corporate business, technical and project plans. (That’s after those documents have received formal approval).

Those 100 plus major defects per page will each cause cost increases, rework and delays in the subsequent execution and realization of those plans and specifications. Tom will be happy to demonstrate the truth of his findings with documents of your choice from your own organization.

In early 2003 in London, Tom taught the Agile Inspection process to the sophisticated organisation responsible for systems development within a global US Banking Services company. They used the process to reduce the average defects rate in their specification documents by 90% in a period of a few weeks.

Document and software inspection techniques were set out in the 1993 book "Software Inspection" and proved to be very effective in practice. Since then, the methods have been further developed to reduce the time and resources needed with the same levels of effectiveness. The result is Agile Inspection.

What you will learn
The Agile Inspection process he teaches is the most effective available today in the world of systems and software engineering, and in business document quality control. This course will show you: -

• how to measure the current defect density in your technical specification and business planning documents;

• how to clean-up existing documents for immediate benefits in: costs, duration and project results;

• how formal reviews and walkthroughs become quicker, more productive and more valuable when Agile Inspection is introduced;

• how ongoing defect creation rates can be reduced by between 50 to 200 times current levels within 12 months;

• how Agile Inspection costs 100 times less to operate than earlier inspection methods yet maintains their effectiveness;

• how the longer term benefit is the culture of greater clarity of expression fostered in organisations using the Agile Inspection process.

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