Blog by Gilb

Gus Power - ValueFirst Expert Interview
https://www.linkedin.com/in/guspower/

His technical knowledge and more importantly, his knowledge of the dynamics behind software development is simply extraordinary. Gus sees links between the different parts of a problem that others would not even...

 by Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

Principle: Represent Rich Reality. 

"Any number of 
objective-levels
can be specified
in any number of 
useful dimensions
of time, space, and events."

If you use a single number to represent the Goal you set to reach, then it...

 by Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

"All your subordinate’s objectives
must clearly support
your objectives"

We typically have many and varied sources of support for reaching our value objectives. Direct subordinates, contractors, consultants, etc. Let us call any instance that...

 by Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

"It is sufficient to initially focus on
up-to-ten most critical value objectives, 
at any given level of responsibility."

How to quickly get your project focussed on the essential priorities,
so ‘even your managers’, and the entire...

by Tom Gilb & Kai Gilb

"All critical
outcome value objectives
can be quantified and must be."

There are two initial steps to quantification of outcome objectives, ‘Scale + Levels.’

First the ‘Quantification Scale’ needs to be defined.

Then interesting levels...

What do you think is the best way forward if you must improve a legacy system that is difficult to change and expensive to maintain? 

Clean slate or Build on the existing system?

What do you think?

Book Reading Recommendations from Trevor Lea-Cox

Competitive Engineering
Author: Tom Gilb

The Fifth Discipline Fieldbook: Strategies and Tools for building a Learning Organization. 
Lead author: Peter Senge.  Nicholas Brealey Publishing.

Business Model Generation
Authors:...

Richard J. Smith - MBCS

email: [email protected]

website: www.rsbatechnology.co.uk

The Price Sentinel Kill Switch

Extra Extra - Richard Smith shares his experience from one of the Investment Banking projects where he used ValueFirst.  

Price...

Sergio Uribe will use ValueFirst on his ambitious project. And he will share the journey. We will post the progress right here as it unfolds. Enjoy!

Day 1 - Introduction & How do I start?

Do you have control over these Values in your project?

Please tell me, does it make you laugh or cry?