Requirements-Driven Project Management:
an overall solution to complex software project management

Tom Gilb

 Monday 24 November. 6.00pm for 6.30pm

  At The Edinburgh International Conference Centre
(In association with the Eurostart Conference)

Requirements-Driven Management (RDM) for Projects is a discipline developed entirely by the speaker. RDM or parts of it have been adopted by several smaller and larger firms (example HP, ICL, Ericsson, CMM Level 4) It is comprehensively documented in a book manuscript and slides at http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/SWTesting/gilb.html and in a short article at http://www.stsc.hill.af.mil/Crosstalk/1997/jun/jun97ind.html.

The central differentiating ideas are these:

• all system quality requirements can be quantified and tracked during development
• the multiple quality and cost impacts of all designs can be estimated during the design process
• all serious development documentation should be subject to process control at least by sampling measurably using the 'inspection' method.
• most projects should avoid the Waterfall model and use an Evolutionary project model based on frequent (2% to 10% of total budget) early measurable deliveries to users.

Tom Gilb is a US born (part Scottish, Irish and English) , immigrant with family to UK (1956) and then to Norway (1958) where he joined IBM. He is a freelance consultant, author, teacher. He coined the term Software Metrics with his book of that title (1977), and has two books in print "Principles of Software Engineering Management" (1988, 13th printing in 97) and (with D. Graham) Software Inspection (1993). This Summer's project has been writing a book about Evolutionary Project Management, which is ready to share electronically. He holds courses in the UK with Unicom ( http://www.unicom.co.uk ). Tom first enjoyed Scotland when he attended the Outward Bound School Moray Firth in 1957.

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