Competitive Engineering. A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering using Planguage
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Author(s): T. Gilb
Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
ISBN: 0750665076
Format: softback
474pp
Price: £24.99, $39.95, €36.95
Review Date: 09 August 2005
Review: Competitive engineering is about technological management, risk control and breakthrough improvements in complex business systems, projects and processes. Here, Tom Gilb describes the Planguage method, ‘a practical set of ideas to help you get better control over all forms of planning, design, engineering, and project management’. The evolutionary approach means that you can define system requirements clearly and unambiguously. Chapters take you through: the basics of Planlanguage; an introduction to the requirements; functions and ‘what systems do’; performance of the system; scales of measurement; resources, budgets and costs; design ideas and design engineering; specification quality control; impact estimation; and evolutionary project management.