Competitive Engineering

A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using Planguage.
Proven by organizations worldwide:
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 managers and systems engineers worldwide, this handbook is for initiating, controlling, and delivering complex projects on time and within budget. Competitive Engineering copes explicitly with the rapidly changing environment that is a reality for most of us today.
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.
Benefits:
Many organizations, including HP, Intel, CitiGroup, IBM, Nokia, and the US Department of Defense, have used and proven it.
Detailed, practical, and innovative coverage of key subjects, including requirements specification, design evaluation, specification quality control, and evolutionary project management.
A complete, proven, and meaningful ‘end-to-end’ process for specifying, evaluating, managing, and delivering high-quality solutions.
Rich in detail and comprehensive in scope, with thought-provoking ideas on every page.
This stuff works:
❛ Competitive Engineering contains powerful tools that are both practical and simple—a rare combination. Over the last decade, I have applied Tom Gilb’s tools in various settings, including product development, service delivery, manufacturing, site construction, IT, eBusiness, quality, marketing, and management, on projects of various sizes. Competitive Engineering is based on decades of practical experience, feedback, and improvement, and it shows. ❜
Erik Simmons
Intel Corporation
Requirements Engineering Practice Lead
Corporate Quality Network
ISBN:- 0 7506 6507 6
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