Tom Gilb and Kai Gilb Course 1: LeanQA

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Lean QA: Much more Cost-Effective Quality Assurance methods, than Testing.

About the Instructors:

• Kai Gilb: has practiced and innovated these advanced software engineering methods for 2 decades, internationally and in Norway. Some of his clients are Rolls Royce, HP, Siemens Healthcare, Citigroup, Credit Suisse, JP Morgan, Philips Medical Systems, Confirmit (Norway), NTNU IT (Norway), Bring (Norway Post Office), Schlumberger.

• Tom Gilb: joined IBM Norway in 1958, and formed his consultancy 1960.   He is the author of 9 books. He was senior author of Software Inspection (1993, in 14th printing), and published Competitive Engineering (2005, 3rd printing)

• Both Gilbs invent methods as necessary, and try them out at real clients over a long period, measurably. They do not copy other peoples vague and unproven ideas. They are very specific, and deeply knowledgeable – which is why they have proven documented practice and success, at the worlds most advanced technology companies.

• More at: www.Gilb.com/about

What was Learnt During the Course:

• STAKEHOLDER QUALITY: Stakeholder quality analysis and specification.

• QUALITY QUANTIFICATION: All quality requirements need to be quantified, to reflect all critical quality dimensions.

• QUALITY BY DESIGN: Design Quality In! Don’t try to test it in. How to find and evaluate designs that give us needed quality levels. How to estimate impact of designs and architectures on requirement levels, as the basis for ‘assuring’ that we have later reached planned quality levels. Smart architecture for quality.

• QUALITY DECISION TABLES: a practical tool for managing multiple qualities, multiple costs, and multiple architecture and strategy options - quantitatively and objectively.

• AGILE QC: Establish ‘agile quality control’, a quantified simple review process. This includes measuring the quality of requirements, designs, code, test plans.  It will give people strong motivation to follow best standards practices.

• QUANTIFIED QUALITY PROCESS GATES: Quantified Process Entry and Exit Control, to drive learning, and practice, of your standards.

• QUALITY BY FEEDBACK: Evolutionary Product Quality Development: one step above conventional  ‘agile’ in dealing with quality. The Unity (111111) method for decomposing architecture into high quality increments.

Collaboration Tools Used on the Course:

• Twitter: @imtomgilb @kaigilb
  • #LeanQA
  • #Requirements #Stakeholders #Software #Projects #Business #Value #Quantified #Planguage #Quality #Assurance #Engineering #Design #TSG #RealQA #Evo #Evolutionary #Agile
• LinkedIn Group: Lean QA and Requirements

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Reference (or cite) Article
	Kahlon, R. S. (2011) Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb Course 1: LeanQA [Online]. dkode: United Kingdom, England, London, Liverpool Street. [Published on: 2011-06-20]. [Article ID: RSK666-0000024]. [Available on: dkode | Ravi - https://ravi.dkode.co/2011/06/tom-gilb-kai-gilb-course-1-leanqa.html].

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