Competitive Engineering: A Handbook For Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering, and Software Engineering Using PlanguageCompetitive 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.
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Contents
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Why? | 35 |
What systems do | 81 |
How Good? | 109 |
How to Quantify | 137 |
Costs of Solutions | 165 |
How to Solve the Requirements Problem | 185 |
How to know how well you specified | 221 |
How to understand strategies | 261 |
How to Manage Project Benefits and Costs | 291 |
Planguage Concept Glossary | 321 |
Further Reading | 445 |
Indices | 449 |
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Page xiii - I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meager and unsatisfactory kind...
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