Editing Tom Gilb (section)

== Biography ==
Tom Gilb was born in 1940 in [[Pasadena, California]], United States. He emigrated to the United Kingdom in 1956 and to Norway in 1958. He took his first job with [[IBM]] in 1958 and became a [[freelance]] consultant in 1960.

He is known for his early work on evolutionary software development processes<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Gilb|first=Tom|date=April 1981|title=Evolutionary Development|journal=SIGSOFT Softw. Eng. Notes|volume=6|issue=2|pages=17|doi=10.1145/1010865.1010868|s2cid=33902347|issn=0163-5948}}</ref> from 1968 to 1981, which was a forerunner of [[Agile software development#History|agile software development]] methods.

He is currently (at least in spring 2018){{when|date=November 2011}} a consultant, teacher and author, in partnership with his son Kai Gilb.<ref name="about">[https://www.gilb.com/pages/about-us About Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb]</ref> He mainly helps multinational clients improve their organizations and methods by using "evolutionary systems delivery" (Evo). His method is based upon the core ideas that all architecture focus has to be on delivering value to the stakeholders<ref>{{cite news |title=Why delivering value to customers makes your business successful and sustainable |url=https://www.todaysoftmag.com/article/711/tom-gilb-why-delivering-value-to-customers-makes-your-business-successful-and-sustainable |access-date=17 June 2018 |publisher=Today Software Magazine}}</ref> and that engineering principles and scientific methods must be used<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Gilb |first1=Tom |title=8.1.1 the Use of Planguage to Improve Requirement Specifications |journal=Incose International Symposium |date=June 2004 |volume=14 |issue=1 |pages=1604–1614 |doi=10.1002/j.2334-5837.2004.tb00598.x |s2cid=60756372 }}</ref> in planning and management of change projects using a formal engineering language like the one that he has developed and named "[[Planguage]]". He has "guest lectured at universities all over UK, Europe, China, India, USA, Korea – and has been a keynote speaker at dozens of technical conferences internationally".<ref name="about"/>

He is a member of [[INCOSE]] and is active in the Norwegian chapter, NORSEC, which presented him with an award in 2003.{{citation needed|date=November 2011}} He lectures at INCOSE local chapters on his worldwide travels and at INCOSE conferences.

In 2012 he was made an Honorary Fellow of the [[British Computer Society]].<ref>[https://www.bcs.org/more/awards-and-competitions/honorary-fellowship-of-bcs/roll-of-honorary-fellows/ BCS Roll of Honorary Fellows]</ref>