Summary: <div> <div>Guest:</div> <div> <div><a target="_blank" href="https://www.gilb.com/">Tom Gilb</a></div> <div><a target="_blank" href="http://twitter.com/imtomgilb">@imtomgilb</a></div> </div> </div> <div class="podcast-episode"> <div class="subtitle"> Tom Gilb speaks with Dave Rael about values, engineering, quantification, measurement, impact, and rewards </div> <div class="podcast-summary"> <p>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: ’<a href="https://leanpub.com/ValuePlanning">Value Planning</a>’. 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 <a href="https://www.gilb.com/">www.Gilb.com</a> for more detail. In 2012 He was named ‘Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society’ (Hon. FBCS). </p> </div> <div> "In physical science the first essential step in the direction of learning any subject is to find principles of numerical reckoning and practicable methods for measuring some quality connected with it. I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely in your thoughts advanced to the state of Science, whatever the matter may be." -Lord Kelvin [PLA, vol. 1, "Electrical Units of Measurement", 1883-05-03] </div> <div class="podcast-chapters"> <h6>Chapters:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="#!"> - Dave introduces the show and Tom Gilb</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's business with his son, Kai</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Recognition for Tom's work and his focus on value and engineering</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The meaning of software engineering</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's discovery of iterative development via common sense</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - How Tom views the meaning of value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Quantification for clarification</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Quantification and measurement</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's career transitions</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The nature of architecture</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's story of failure - limiting the scope of failure and an ambitious mission to turn software development into a real engineering discipline</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's success story - impact of the principles in his books, his ideas taking hold in real organizations</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's book recommendation, Elon Musk, the joy of owning a Tesla, consumer value, and dreaming big</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - The things that have Tom most excited</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's lifestyle</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value</a></li> <li><a href="#!"> - Keeping up with Tom</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-resources"> <h6>Resources:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.gilb.com/" target="_blank">Tom's Website</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.gilb.com/store/2W2zCX6z" target="_blank">Value Planning - Use Coupon Code: FIRE</a></li> <li><a href="http://traffic.libsyn.com/developeronfire/Gilb_Competitive_Engineering_Book_FINAL_web.pdf" target="_blank">Competitive Engineering</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-238-gerald-weinberg-human-tools" target="_blank">Jerry Weinberg on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://twitter.com/kaigilb" target="_blank">Kai Gilb</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/0201192462/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Principles Of Software Engineering Management - Tom Gilb</a></li> <li><a href="http://agilemanifesto.org/" target="_blank">Manifesto for Agile Software Development</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Healthcare_in_Norway" target="_blank">Healthcare in Norway</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Thomson" target="_blank">Lord Kelvin</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/166961-when-you-can-measure-what-you-are-speaking-about-and" target="_blank">Lord Kelvin's Quote</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOfK6rSLVTA" target="_blank">Quantify the un-quantifiable: Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plugboard" target="_blank">Programming with Plugboards</a></li> <li><a href="https://vimeo.com/28763240" target="_blank">Tom's Talk on What's Wrong with Architecture</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-230-john-sonmez-bold-truth" target="_blank">John Sonmez on Developer On Fire</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci" target="_blank">Leonardo da Vinci</a></li> <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ren%C3%A9_Descartes" target="_blank">René Descartes</a></li> <li><a href="https://www.dotnetrocks.com/default.aspx?showNum=1118" target="_blank">Dan North on .NET Rocks! - Articulated Surgeon Who Says You Don't Need Surgery (starting at 46:10)</a></li> <li><a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/news/norway-half-new-cars-electric-hybrid-ofv-vehicle-registrations-a7615556.html" target="_blank">Electric Cars in Norway</a></li> <li><a href="http://worldhappiness.report/ed/2017/" target="_blank">World Happiness Report 2017</a></li> <li><a href="http://developeronfire.com/podcast/episode-200-austin-bingham-paying-dues-and-acquiring-space" target="_blank">Austin Bingham on Developer On Fire</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-book-recommendation"> <h6>Tom's book recommendation:</h6> <ul> <li><a href="https://www.amazon.com/dp/006230125X/?tag=devonfir-20" target="_blank">Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance</a></li> </ul> </div> <div class="podcast-tips"> <h6>Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value:</h6> <ol> <li>Define the values quantitatively</li> <li>Experiment with ways of getting those values, dumping ways that don't work</li> <li>Think of what values are being achieved and at what costs</li> <li>Read Tom's Value Planning book</li> </ol> </div> </div>
