Overview
'Quality 4.0' published few years ago, now suggested improvements for many critical large-scale software systems, to be called Quality 5.0
Speaker
Tom Gilb
Agenda
18:00 - Start of Presenation.
19:00 - Estimated Finish
Synopsis
Quality 4.0 was published a few years ago [Watson, 2019] . The American Society for Quality has promoted 'Quality 4.0' then. I would like to suggest improvements to the ideas, called Quality 5.0 First with the definition of ‘quality’, and then with regard to desirable practices. The definition of quality needs to recognize that quality can be a multiplicity, can be quantified, and can be engineered, rather than ‘crafted by traditional practices’. This is not necessary for small-scale IT, the ‘cabin’ or ‘dog-house’ level. But it is absolutely necessary for the many critical large-scale software systems we are responsible for: the skyscraper class, which as we know require lots of architecture and engineering.
About the speaker
Tom Gilb HonFBCS was born in California 1940, lived in the UK 1956-58, Norway 1958 to present. Joined IBM 1958. Consulted for a very wide variety of organisations, and managed to influence some of them in interesting and well documented ways. See ‘PPPP’ below. Tom is an Honorary Fellow of BCS. See Gilb.com for more details.
Tom is the author of thirteen paper books, dozens of E-books, and hundreds of papers on a wide variety of subjects. His book ‘Competitive Engineering’ is a substantial definition of systems engineering ideas. His works are at Researchgate ( https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tom-Gilb ) All free, and https://leanpub.com/u/tomgilb (free samples) Many BCS and other videos by Tom are at https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=tom+gilb , and at the BCS SPA video site https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKBhokJ0qd3_wlvr0j85YhmNfNj8ZJ8M-
Tom 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. There are very many organizations and individuals who use some or all of Gilb methods. IBM and HP were two early corporate adopters. Over the recent 20 years, 20,000 engineers at Intel have adopted his ‘Planguage’ requirements and design methods. Some case studies of the use of his methods are in ‘Powerful Ploys for Problems, using Planguage’, https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384054757_PPPP_Powerful_Ploys_for_Problems/ which includes an updated references section with free publications, up to 2024. Tom is 86, retired, living in Norway. He follows up electronically daily, and his highest wish is to spread useful ideas to the next generation.
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