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Competitive engineering : a handbook for systems engineering, requirements engineering, and software engineering using planguage
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Burlington, MA : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2005
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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.


Table of Contents

Erik SimmonsRoger Pressman and Mark Maier
Forewordp. vii
Endorsementsp. ix
Prefacep. xii
Acknowledgementsp. xv
Introductionp. xvii
Chapter 1 Planguage Basics and Process Controlp. 1
Chapter 2 Introduction to Requirementsp. 35
Chapter 3 Functionsp. 81
Chapter 4 Performancep. 109
Chapter 5 Scales of Measurep. 137
Chapter 6 Resources, Budgets and Costsp. 165
Chapter 7 Design Ideas and Design Engineeringp. 185
Chapter 8 Specification Quality Controlp. 221
Chapter 9 Impact Estimationp. 261
Chapter 10 Evolutionary Project Managementp. 291
Planguage Concept Glossaryp. 321
Glossary Introductionp. 321
Bibliographyp. 439
Further Readingp. 445
Indexp. 449