Grant (PG) Rule

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Gender Male
Industry Consulting
Occupation Managing Director & Rightshifter
Location Edenbridge, Kent, United Kingdom
Introduction As a founder of SMS Ltd, COSMIC, & the UK Rightshifting Network, with +35 years experience in softsystems, I am committed to leading firms in learning to be more effective at creating value and achieving desired outcomes for all stakeholders. I fell into computing in 1972. I discovered Jackson Structured Programming in 76, and Harlan Mill’s Chief Programmer Teams in 77; more recently I’ve been using Scrum & Kanban. Gerry Weinberg taught me to explore requirements. I learnt data modelling from Edgar Codd & Chris Date. In the 70s I was exposed to Simpact’s PROMPT. In the 80s I helped write PRINCE. I did CMM Assessments in ‘88, introduced the founders of the European SEPG to the SEI in the 90s. I threw people at late projects despite Fred Brooks (and succeeded under special conditions). I’ve moved from batch, to character-mode VDUs, to page-mode OLTP, distributed PC networks, WiFi & web2 apps. My career’s evolved from ops, to programmer, Chief Programmer, Analyst, DPM, consultant with NCR, methodologist with Michael Jackson Systems Ltd & LBMS. I founded The Guild of Independent Function Point Analysts & my company, SMS in 1994. We’ve learned a lot…
Interests History, Archery, Sailing, Folk Music, Reading
Favorite Music Roots music, Folk, Celtic, Irish, Scottish, Cornish, Folk Dance, Morris Dance, Playford, Dulcimer
Favorite Books Anything by C.J. Cherryh, Xenophon's 'Anabasis', 'The Jewish War' by Josephus, Caesar's'The Conquest of Gaul', 'The Lord of the Rings', anything on history (especially Celtic, Romano-British, and Anglo-Saxon history before Bill the Bastard messed things up in 1066)