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Summary
Summary
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.
Table of Contents
Foreword | p. vii |
Endorsements | p. ix |
Preface | p. xii |
Acknowledgements | p. xv |
Introduction | p. xvii |
Chapter 1 Planguage Basics and Process Control | p. 1 |
Chapter 2 Introduction to Requirements | p. 35 |
Chapter 3 Functions | p. 81 |
Chapter 4 Performance | p. 109 |
Chapter 5 Scales of Measure | p. 137 |
Chapter 6 Resources, Budgets and Costs | p. 165 |
Chapter 7 Design Ideas and Design Engineering | p. 185 |
Chapter 8 Specification Quality Control | p. 221 |
Chapter 9 Impact Estimation | p. 261 |
Chapter 10 Evolutionary Project Management | p. 291 |
Planguage Concept Glossary | p. 321 |
Glossary Introduction | p. 321 |
Bibliography | p. 439 |
Further Reading | p. 445 |
Index | p. 449 |