Competitive Engineering: A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage

  • 7h 58m
  • Tom Gilb
  • Elsevier Science and Technology Books, Inc.
  • 2005

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 design, manage and deliver results in any complex organization - in engineering, industry, systems engineering, software, IT, the service sector and beyond.

In this Book

  • Planguage Basics and Process Control—The Purpose of Planguage
  • Introduction to Requirements—Why?
  • Functions—What systems ‘Do’
  • Performance—How Good?
  • Scales of Measure—How to Quantify
  • Resources, Budgets and Costs—Costs of Solutions
  • Design Ideas and Design Engineering—How to Solve the ‘Requirements Problem’
  • Specification Quality Control—How to Know How Well you Specified
  • Impact Estimation—How to Understand Strategies
  • Evolutionary Project Management—How to Manage Project Benefits and Costs
  • Bibliography
  • Further Reading
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