Competitive Engineering

Competitive Engineering A Handbook for Systems Engineering, Requirements Engineering and Software Engineering using Planguage is a systems engineering book by Tom Gilb.

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
• Edited by Lindsey Brodie of Middlesex University
• Foreword by Erik Simmons, Requirements Engineering Practice Lead at Intel Corporation
• Endorsement by Roger S. Pressman Ph.D, President, R.S. Pressman & Associates, Inc.
• Endorsement by Dr Mark W. Maier, Distinguished Engineer at The Aerospace Corporation and Chair of the INCOSE Systems Architecture Working Group

References

Gilb, Tom (2005). Competitive Engineering. Elsevier Butterworth-Heinemann. ISBN 0-7506-6507-6.