TABLE OF CONTENTS Competitive Engineering (CE) is about technological management, risk control, and breakthrough improvement in complex business systems, projects and processes. It is systems engineering, with application to all forms of planning, requirement specification, design and project management. It also applies to management of organizations, both top management and technical management. Competitive Engineering is hopefully the end result of using this book's ideas.
CE is taught using Planguage. [1] Planguage consists of a new industrial systems engineering language for communicating systems engineering and management specifications, and a set of methods providing advice on best practices. Planguage is central to CE and permeates all themes of this book.
The Planguage Specification Language is used to describe all the requirements, designs and plans for a system.
The main Planguage Methods are as follows:
Requirement Specification: used to capture all the different requirement types. Emphasis is placed on specifying competitive performance and resource attributes quantitatively.
Impact Estimation: used to evaluate designs against the requirements. It is also used during project implementation to track progress towards meeting the requirements.
Specification Quality Control: used at any stage of a project to check the adherence of any plan, contract, bid or technical specification to best practice specification standards.
Evolutionary Project Management: used to plan and monitor implementation of the selected designs.
The reader will, hopefully, find that these are all very practical and innovative methods, compared with current practice and literature.
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