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

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.

Elegant, comprehensive and accessible, 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.

Provides detailed, practical and innovative coverage of key subjects including requirements specification, design evaluation, specification quality control and evolutionary project managementOffers a complete, proven and meaningful 'end-to-end' process for specifying, evaluating, managing and delivering high quality solutionsTom Gilb's clients include HP, Intel, CitiGroup, IBM, Nokia and the US Department of Defense

1. Planguage Basics and Process Control; 2. Introduction to Requirements; 3. Functions; 4. Performance; 5. Scales of Measure; 6. Resources, Budgets and Costs; 7. Design Ideas and Design Engineering; 8. Specification Quality Control; 9. Impact Estimation; 10. Evolutionary Project Management; Planguage Concept Glossary