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. 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.

• Planguage Basics and Process Control
• Introduction to Requirements
• Functions
• Performance
• Scales of Measure
• Resources, Budgets and Costs
• Design Ideas and Design Engineering
• Specification Quality Control
• Impact Estimation
• Evolutionary Project Management
• Planguage Concept Glossary