Competitive Engineering

Competitive Engineering

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

1st Edition - July 15, 2005

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  • Author: Tom Gilb
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080457093
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780750665070

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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.

Key Features

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

Readership

Professional reference for engineers and engineering managers, plus general managers involved in systems engineering, specification, design, project management and quality management. Key industries: software, aerospace, automotive, and civil engineering

Table of Contents

  • 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

Product details

  • No. of pages: 480
  • Language: English
  • Copyright: © Butterworth-Heinemann 2005
  • Published: July 15, 2005
  • Imprint: Butterworth-Heinemann
  • eBook ISBN: 9780080457093
  • Paperback ISBN: 9780750665070

About the Author

Tom Gilb

Affiliations and Expertise

Author of 8 previous books and Consultant, Result Planning Limited, UK.

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