Competitive engineering : a handbook for systems engineering, requirements engineering, and software engineering using Planguage
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. * Provides detailed, practical and innovative coverage of key subjects including requirements specification, design evaluation, specification quality control and evolutionary project management * Offers a complete, proven and meaningful 'end-to-end' process for specifying, evaluating, managing and delivering high quality solutions * Tom Gilb's clients include HP, Intel, CitiGroup, IBM, Nokia and the US Department of Defense
1 online resource (xxi, 474 pages) : illustrations
9780080457093, 9786610629220, 0080457096, 6610629226
76838195
Planguage basics and process control : the purpose of planguage
Introduction to requirements : why?
Functions : what systems "do"
Performance : how good?
Scales of measure : how to quantify
Resources, budgets and costs : costs of solutions
Design ideas and design engineering : how to solve the "requirements problem"
Specification quality control : how to know how well you specified
Impact estimation : how to understand strategies
Evolutionary project management : how to manage project benefits and costs
English