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Competitive Engineering A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering using Planguage is a systems engineering
Systems engineering
Systems engineering is an interdisciplinary field of engineering that focuses on how complex engineering projects should be designed and managed over the life cycle of the project. Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more...

 book by Tom Gilb
Tom Gilb
Tom Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes.- Biography :...

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The primary focus of the book is documenting an engineering method called "Planguage". The book recommends implementing a "plan-language" to communicate management objectives and systems' engineering requirements clearly and unambiguously.

The book provides extensive definitions of the terms which compose this specification language. It also provides a thesaurus-like glossary which associates each "Planguage" word or phrase with a "Concept Number".

Published in 2005 by Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann.
  • Written by Tom Gilb
    Tom Gilb
    Tom Gilb is an American systems engineer, consultant, and author, known for the development of software metric, software inspection, and evolutionary processes.- Biography :...

  • Edited by Lindsey Brodie of Middlesex University
    Middlesex University
    Middlesex University is a university in north London, England. It is located in the historic county boundaries of Middlesex from which it takes its name. It is one of the post-1992 universities and is a member of Million+ working group...

  • Foreword by Erik Simmons, Requirements Engineering
    Requirements engineering
    Requirements engineering is a systems and software engineering process which covers all of the activities involved in discovering, documenting and maintaining a set of requirements for a computer-based system...

     Practice Lead at Intel Corporation
    Intel Corporation
    Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...

  • Endorsement by Roger S. Pressman
    Roger S. Pressman
    Roger S. Pressman is an American software engineer, author and consultant, and President of R.S. Pressman & Associates.He received a BSE from the University of Connecticut, an MS from the University of Bridgeport and a PhD from the University of Connecticut...

     Ph.D, President, R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc.
  • Endorsement by Dr Mark W. Maier, Distinguished Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation
    The Aerospace Corporation
    The Aerospace Corporation is a private, non-profit corporation headquartered in El Segundo, California that has operated a Federally Funded Research and Development Center for the United States Air Force since 1960...

     and Chair of the INCOSE Systems Architecture
    Systems architecture
    A system architecture or systems architecture is the conceptual model that defines the structure, behavior, and more views of a system.An architecture description is a formal description and representation of a system, organized in a way that supports reasoning about the structure of the system...

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