Author: Tom Gilb
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: management, engineering, software, principles
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 1988-01-11
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 0201192462
ISBN-13: 9780201192469

This book is designed to help software engineers and project managers to understand and solve the problems involved in developing complex software systems. It provides practical guidelines and tools for managing the technical and organizational aspects of software engineering projects. Part One explains the critical success factors for software, and introduces methods including: specification (using results-oriented quality and resource metricsfinding and evaluating solutioevolutionary planning and deliverinspection for quality and productivity Part Two gives detailed guidelines for impleme

Author: Tom Gilb
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
Keywords: engineering, using, planguage, software, systems, handbook, competitive, requirements
Number of Pages: 480
Published: 2005-08-26
List price: $50.95
ISBN-10: 0750665076
ISBN-13: 9780750665070

Competitive Engineering documents Tom Gilb’s unique, ground-breaking approach to communicating management objectives and systems engineering requirements, clearly and unambiguously. Competitive Engineering is a revelation for anyone involved in management and risk control. Already used by thousands of project managers and systems engineers around the world, this is a handbook for initiating, controlling and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. The Competitive Engineering methodology provides a practical set of tools and techniques that enable readers to effectively desi

Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: flowers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2009-02-03
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0802144020
ISBN-13: 9780802144027

Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When Sonny’s mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives: Cindy, an eighteen-year-old druggie who is married and bored; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother but who is never allowed to leave the

Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: novel, flowers
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2008-01-21
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0802118593
ISBN-13: 9780802118592

Sonny Bravo is a tender, unusually smart fifteen-year-old who is living with his vivacious mother in a large city where intense prejudice is not just white against black, but also brown. When Sonny’s mother, Silvia, suddenly marries an Okie building contractor named Cloyd Longpre, they are uprooted to a small apartment building, Los Flores. As Sonny sweeps its sidewalks, he meets his neighbors and becomes ensnared in their lives: Cindy, an eighteen-year-old druggie who is married and bored; Nica, a cloistered Mexican girl who cares for her infant brother but who is never allowed to leave the

Authors:Tom Gilb, D. Graham,
Publisher: Addison-Wesley Professional
Keywords: inspection, software
Number of Pages: 496
Published: 1994-01-10
List price: $69.99
ISBN-10: 0201631814
ISBN-13: 9780201631814

Gilb and Graham show software professionals how to achieve high-quality software through inspection. They show how to do a formal review of documents to find errors, giving effective statistical process improvement. The book includes many examples and case studies based on actual experience at IBM, AT&T, McDonnell Douglas, and other companies.

Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Keywords: southwestern, writers, collection, literature, mexican, tejas, anthology, texas, hecho
Number of Pages: 522
Published: 2008-04-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0826341268
ISBN-13: 9780826341266

Author: Dagoberto Gilb
Publisher: Grove Press
Keywords: novel, acuna, mickey, residence, last
Number of Pages: 218
Published: 1995-09-11
List price: $11.00
ISBN-10: 080213419X
ISBN-13: 9780802134196

Mickey Acuña is a man suspended between a vague past and a vaguer future. Emerging from the landscape of the Southwest, buffeted by life and licking his wounds, he moves into a YMCA to wait for a check that is coming to save him and that demands an address. As days and then weeks pass without its arrival, he picks up work - first odd jobs and then shifts at the cash register of the Y - and hangs out with his neighbors, playing handball, drinking coffee, shooting pool, getting drunk, falling in love or lust with women he meets, works with, passes on the street. In the vacuum of the Y, Mickey f