Tom Gilb

INCOSE Fellow, Norway

Tom Gilb is the author of 9 books. Current printings include Software Inspection (1993) and Principles of Software Engineering Management (1988, now in 20th printing). His latest book is "Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage." He coined the term ‘software metrics’ with his book of that title in 1976.

Much of his work is available on his website, www.Gilb.com. He is currently a consultant, teacher and author in partnership with his son Kai. He mainly serves multinational clients in improving their organizations and methods. He works with major multinationals such as Boeing, Bosch, Qualcomm, HP, IBM, Nokia, Ericsson, Credit Suisse, Sun Open Office, Microsoft, US DOD, UK MOD, Symbian, Philips, BAe, Intel, Citigroup, Telenor, BAA, Den norske Veritas, Schlumberger, Tektronix, GE, GSK; and many others – including smaller organizations such as Truphone (web phones). Confirmit (Survey systems), University of Trondheim IT Department, Enlight (Course Tools), Avenir (IT Consultant), Clearstream (Finance), UECC (Shipping) His latest interest is development of his Planning Language, ‘Planguage’, described in his CE book, and its application in top management planning.

He is a member of INCOSE and is an active member of the Norwegian chapter NORSEC. He frequently lectures at INCOSE local chapters on his worldwide travels and at INCOSE conferences and symposia. He is a frequent guest lecturer at universities worldwide.