Episode 241 | Tom Gilb - Impactful Value

Guest: Tom Gilb @imtomgilb Tom Gilb speaks with Dave Rael about values, engineering, quantification, measurement, impact, and rewards 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: ’Value Planning’ ) [Leanpub.com/ValuePlanning]. 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 www.Gilb.com for more detail. In 2012 He was named ‘Honorary Fellow of the British Computer Society’ (Hon. FBCS). "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] Chapters: 0:51 - Dave introduces the show and Tom Gilb3:16 - Tom's business with his son, Kai4:49 - Recognition for Tom's work and his focus on value and engineering6:46 - The meaning of software engineering8:13 - Tom's discovery of iterative development via common sense12:17 - How Tom views the meaning of value16:18 - Quantification for clarification18:38 - Quantification and measurement19:08 - Tom's career transitions24:06 - The nature of architecture26:22 - Tom's story of failure - limiting the scope of failure and an ambitious mission to turn software development into a real engineering discipline35:20 - Tom's success story - impact of the principles in his books, his ideas taking hold in real organizations39:54 - Tom's book recommendation, Elon Musk, the joy of owning a Tesla, consumer value, and dreaming big46:28 - The things that have Tom most excited47:53 - Tom's lifestyle51:08 - Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value52:07 - Keeping up with Tom Resources: Tom's Website Value Planning - epub Value Planning - pdf Competitive Engineering Jerry Weinberg on Developer On Fire Kai Gilb Principles Of Software Engineering Management - Tom Gilb Manifesto for Agile Software Development Healthcare in Norway Lord Kelvin Lord Kelvin's Quote Quantify the un-quantifiable: Tom Gilb at TEDxTrondheim Programming with Plugboards Tom's Talk on What's Wrong with Architecture John Sonmez on Developer On Fire Leonardo da Vinci René Descartes Dan North on .NET Rocks! - Articulated Surgeon Who Says You Don't Need Surgery (starting at 46:10) Electric Cars in Norway World Happiness Report 2017 Austin Bingham on Developer On Fire Tom's book recommendation: Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance Tom's top 3 tips for delivering more value: Define the values quantitatively Experiment with ways of getting those values, dumping ways that don't work Think of what values are being achieved and at what costs Read Tom's Value Planning book