October 2007 - Posts

• VALUE: Value officer, Value Manifesto, Value Principles

  Do we need a Chief Value Officer (CVO) ? • All projects, IT and Systems, organizational development – are essentially about delivering value to stakeholders. • Projects that we see, and the web-available, conference-available literature on this subject... Posted Oct 20 2007, 05:19 AM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• Is software quality measurement a matter of subjective judgement?

  Today I got a question from a Post Graduate Student of Business Information Technology. Question: Is software quality measurement a matter of subjective judgement? First what is SW Quality? There is little agreement among the experts. I of cause favor... Posted Oct 19 2007, 09:06 AM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• How does Evo define Dev Resources? & How soon do Evo deliver Stakeholder Values?

  I recently got an email from a client with some questions I like to share. We’ve assembled a small team to start working on how we would implement your methods in our business; looking at how we will market them as well as delivery to clients. A couple... Posted Oct 17 2007, 03:49 AM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• Making Metrics Practical in the Development Process: 20 Principles

  Making Metrics Practical in the Development Process - ten fundamental principles for failure and ten critical software metrics principles for success in the commercial environment. By Tom Gilb Exclusively for UK Software Metrics Association • 16 October... Posted Oct 12 2007, 05:24 PM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog

• Tom and I just completed a quality review

  of a large (tens of millions euro spent) IT project. Not surprisingly, we found the highest level of the requirements where unclear, unmeasurable slogans. And the developers of the project where not focused on satisfying them (hard really, when they are... Posted Oct 12 2007, 04:08 AM by Tiki RSS feed for blog: Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb's blog