Tom Gilb and Kai Gilb Guest Lecture at MDX 2009

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A Master Class by Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb at Middlesex University – March 2009 organised by Elli Georgiadou (Principal Lecturer in Information Systems Quality Management)
Tom Gilb has developed important and innovative work in Systems and Software Engineering
The subject was on:

"Quantifying Quality: How to Tackle Quantification of the Critical Quality aspects for Projects for Both Requirements and Designs"

• Quality describes ‘how well’ a function is done.
• Quality describes the partial effectiveness of a function (as do all other performance attributes).
• Quality is valued to some degree by some stakeholders of the system.
• More Quality is generally valued by Stakeholders; especially if the increase is free, or lower cost, than the value of the increase.
• Quality attributes can be articulated independently of the particular means (designs) used for reaching a specific quality level - even though all Quality levels depend on the particular designs used to achieve them.
• A particular Quality can be a described in terms of a Complex concept, consisting of multiple elementary Quality concepts.
• Quality is Variable (along a definable scale of measure: as are all scalar attributes).
• Quality levels are capable of being specified Quantitatively (as are all scalar attributes).
• Quality levels can be Measured in practice.
• Quality levels can be traded off to some degree; with other system attributes valued more by stakeholders.
• Quality can never be perfect (100%), in the real world.
• There are some levels of a particular quality that may be outside the state of the art; at a defined time and circumstance.
• When Quality levels increase towards perfection, the resources needed to support those levels tend towards infinity.

More at: www.Gilb.com

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Reference (or cite) Article
	Kahlon, R. S. (2009) Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb Guest Lecture at MDX 2009 [Online]. dkode: United Kingdom, England, London, Hendon. [Published on: 2009-03-12]. [Article ID: RSK666-0000013]. [Available on: dkode | Ravi - https://ravi.dkode.co/2010/02/this-end-of-bis4410-module-if-your-new.html].

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