作者
Gerald Weinberg was born and raised in Chicago. In 1963 he received a PhD in
Communication Sciences from the University
of Michigan.
Weinberg started working in the computing business at IBM
in 1956 at the Federal Systems Division Washington, where he participated as
Manager of Operating Systems Development in the Project Mercury (1959–1963),
which aimed to put a human in orbit around the Earth. In 1960 he published one
of his first papers. Since 1969 he has been consultant and Principal at
Weinberg & Weinberg. Here he conducts workshops such as the AYE Conference
The Problem Solving Leadership workshop since 1974, and workshops about the
Fieldstone Method. Further Weinberg has been an author at Dorset
House Publishing since 1970, consultant at Microsoft since 1988, and moderator
at the Shape Forum since 1993.