December 2006 - Posts

• Estimation or Control?

  I am drafting the basics for a paper on my views on estimation. Here is the first draft. Tom Estimation or Control? • Accurate estimation is impossible for complex technical projects, but keeping to agreed budgets is still possible using feedback and... Posted Dec 28 2006, 06:27 PM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• Engineering Productivity: how to measure it and manage it – ten principles.

  Many of our large multinaional clients have thousands of product development and maintenance engineers employed. If they need more, they hire more. But sometimes you cannot hire enough. Increasing the productivity of the ones you already have is tempting... Posted Dec 25 2006, 12:45 PM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• Reliability - designing it in, not testing it in

  Reliability - designing it in, not testing it in I am writing a paper on Reliability. When it is done it will be posted on this site in downloads. It is in response to the the frequent question I get from clients - "Help us get better quality, by... Posted Dec 25 2006, 08:25 AM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog