Application of System Engineering to Project Management

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 76-97 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian J. Galli
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Success Rate ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
System Engineering ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Engineering Projects

System engineering in complex systems has transitioned into a well detailed, universally accepted, client-oriented methodology. Unfortunately, this approach hasn't been adopted in most commercially mandated research and development organizations. This article acknowledges that to improve the success of projects, it is essential to understand the benefits of managing product requirement with system engineering. In discussion is the application of system engineering in improving the success rate through better requirement handling. It presents the elements of the relationship between system engineering and project management. The findings suggest that the full importance of applying system engineering can only be enjoyed if other pre-requisites on prudent decision-making are applied. Furthermore, the findings suggest guidance on ways of adopting system-engineering (SE) practices when implementing in large-scale engineering projects.

scholarly journals Integrating Value Considerations in the Decision Making for the Design of Biorefineries

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (6) ◽  
pp. 2927-2955
Author(s):  
Mar Palmeros Parada ◽  
Lotte Asveld ◽  
Patricia Osseweijer ◽  
John Alexander Posada
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Complex Systems ◽  
Research And Development ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Design Decision ◽  
Value Sensitive Design ◽  
Design Practice ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Design Alternatives ◽  
Biobased Production

AbstractBiobased production has been promoted as a sustainable alternative to fossil resources. However, controversies over its impact on sustainability highlight societal concerns, value tensions and uncertainties that have not been taken into account during its development. In this work, the consideration of stakeholders’ values in a biorefinery design project is investigated. Value sensitive design (VSD) is a promising approach to the design of technologies with consideration of stakeholders’ values, however, it is not directly applicable for complex systems like biorefineries. Therefore, some elements of VSD, such as the identification of relevant values and their connection to a technology’s features, are brought into biorefinery design practice. Midstream modulation (MM), an approach to promoting the consideration of societal aspects during research and development activities, is applied to promote reflection and value considerations during the design decision making. As result, it is shown that MM interventions during the design process led to new design alternatives in support of stakeholders' values, and allowed to recognize and respond to emerging value tensions within the scope of the project. In this way, the present work shows a novel approach for the technical investigation of VSD, especially for biorefineries. Also, based on this work it is argued that not only reflection, but also flexibility and openness are important for the application of VSD in the context of biorefinery design.

Design of an Integrated Project Management Information System for Large Scale Public Projects

2013 ◽  
pp. 150-164
Author(s):  
Mona Taghavi ◽  
Ahmed Patel ◽  
Hamed Taghavi
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Information Service ◽  
Project Management System ◽  
Public Projects ◽  
Complete Life Cycle ◽  
Management Processes ◽  
Efficiency And Effectiveness

Due to the unprecedented growth of outsourcing ICT projects by the Iranian government, a critical need exists for the proper execution and monitoring of these projects. In this paper, the authors propose a web-based project management system to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of the management processes and accelerate decision making. Based on the requirements and information flow between various units involved in the complete life-cycle of ICT project management, a functional model and system architecture with various underlying structures has been designed. The functional model contains two sub-systems: process management and information service. The proposed system structure is based on a four-layer client-server computing model. As a part of a publically available ICT system, it must be secure against cybercrime activities. This system can bring efficiency in managing the projects, improve decision making, and increase the overall management process with total accounting and management transparency. The proposed system overcomes the problems associated with a central system and traditional management processes, as is currently the case in Iran.

scholarly journals Understanding Relationship between Milestone and Decision-Making in Project Management: A Qualitative Study among Project Managers in Saudi Arabia

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Umar Altahtooh ◽  
Thamir Alaskar
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Saudi Arabia ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Qualitative Study ◽  
Thematic Analysis ◽  
Project Managers ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Pragmatic Research ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Relationship

Despite the importance of milestone as a key knowledge in project management, there has been lack of research to understand the relationship between milestones and decision-making. This paper presents a pragmatic research context that aims understanding the nature of milestones and their relationship with different decision-making structures and responsibilities across projects. Data were collected through 14 semi-structured interviews with project managers and analyzed using thematic analysis. The findings explore the concepts of project milestones among project managers in Saudi Arabia. The paper finds that there is a relationship between milestones and the impact on decision-making.

scholarly journals A Belief Rule-Based Safety Evaluation Approach for Complex Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Zhang ◽  
Jiang Jiang ◽  
Yingwu Chen ◽  
Kewei Yang
Keyword(s):  
Complex Systems ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Rule Base ◽  
Negative Effects ◽  
Rule Based ◽  
Evaluation Approach ◽  
Reasoning Algorithm ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Estimation Of Uncertainty

Plenty of hazards underlie complex systems, which have negative effects on the normal functionality of engineering events. To minimize the uncertainty, a comprehensive preevent checkout is necessarily required to judge if the engineering events will be carried out successfully under current circumstance, through which further improvements can be made. A generic belief rule-based safety evaluation approach for large-scale complex systems is proposed. The overall system is firstly decomposed and filtered into the measurable attributes that may potentially contribute to uncertainty. Belief structure is then applied to measure the uncertainty of vagueness and incompleteness and represent heterologous information in a unified scheme. With this scheme, a rule base is established with all antecedents, consequents, and attributes presented in belief degrees, which is used to determine the relationship between attributes, aggregate the influences, and generate the final inference with evidential reasoning algorithm. In the end, an estimation of uncertainty is achieved in the representation of distribution. It describes how the systems perform with given conditions and sources. A numeric case in aerospace program is provided for feasibility illustration.

scholarly journals The Influence of It Innovation Mechanisms on Healthcare Project Management Strategies

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 94-103
Author(s):  
Walter Amedzro St-Hilaire ◽  
Catherine De La Robertie
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Project Management ◽  
Panel Data ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Significant Positive Effect ◽  
It Innovation ◽  
Operational Decision Making ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Positive Effect

Abstract Healthcare projects with apparent productivity gaps require all available IT innovation mechanisms. The objective of this study is to investigate the predictors of the development of IT innovation mechanisms to improving healthcare business. This includes the utilization of the panel data in healthcare projects and the analysis of the relationship between IT innovation mechanisms and operational decision-making. The paper indicates that the implementation of innovative IT technology has a significant positive effect on the healthcare project productivity in Canadian hospitals.

Information Integrated Management of Large-Scale Chemical Engineering Projects Based on Owner

2011 ◽  
Vol 327 ◽  
pp. 203-209
Author(s):  
Xia Jie Jin ◽  
Cai Xing Lin
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Information Integration ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Chemical Engineering ◽  
Integrated Management ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Integrated Management System ◽  
Integrate Management ◽  
Engineering Project Management ◽  
Engineering Projects

As an important content of engineering project management, information integrated management system is a public service platform of the whole system integrate management. In some way, the engineering project management is equal to project information management. Under the theory of information integration, this paper analysis the important role of the owner in the information integrated management, and puts forward the large-scale chemical engineering project information integrated management should take the owner as main integrator and controller. Then, This paper research on the basic conditions for chemical engineering project information integration, Based on this, it build up three layers information integrated management system of large-scale chemical engineering projects based on owner; and analysis and researched the construction and implemented methods of data storage layer 、data managed and shared layer、application layer. Providing a mind of constructive about information integrate management of chemical engineering projects.

scholarly journals Proposal of Knowledge Creation Process for Innovation Aim in Research and Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kazuhiko Kato ◽  
Yuu Iwama ◽  
Toshihiro Ioi
Keyword(s):  
Research And Development ◽  
Knowledge Creation ◽  
Process Model ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Quality Of Research ◽  
Determining Factor

Motivation improvement of researchers is essential to facilitate knowledge creation for innovation aim in research and development organizations. This is because the knowledge that is the source of innovation is ultimately created by individual researchers themselves, and motivation is a determining factor in the quality of research and development activities performed by those researchers. According to previous research into the relationship between creativity and motivation, intrinsic motivation is necessary for individual creative realization. Our research has as its goal the creation of a process model for research and development management that allows for continued improvement of motivation. By adding a mechanism to increase motivation for further research to support the creation of knowledge, and conducted research aims to conduct more effective innovation.

scholarly journals Research on risk evaluation of BIM application in military engineering project management

2021 ◽  
Vol 257 ◽  
pp. 02046
Author(s):  
Zhu Pu ◽  
Liu Xiao Dong ◽  
Guo Rui ◽  
Yang Chun Lin
Keyword(s):  
Project Management ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Production Management ◽  
Information Modeling ◽  
New Production ◽  
Engineering Project ◽  
Engineering Project Management ◽  
Engineering Construction Project ◽  
Military Engineering ◽  
Engineering Projects

With the deepening of the reform of national defense and the military, the defense strength of China has been greatly enhanced, and the number of military engineering projects has also increased year by year. The complexity and large-scale construction of engineering projects make it difficult for the traditional military’s engineering project management to meet current needs. This puts forward higher requirements for the military’s engineering project management ideas and methods. The refined and intelligent military engineering project management has become our military’s Matters that need to be focused on. Building Information Modeling (BIM) is a hot technology and a new production management method in the current construction industry, which provides us with a more advanced and intelligent military engineering construction project management idea. This paper identifies the risks of applying BIM technology to military engineering projects by consulting a large amount of data, and uses SPSS software to conduct neural network analysis of the identified risks and proposes corresponding measures to promote the extensive use of BIM in military engineering project management.

scholarly journals Finding the sweet spot for organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale agile software development

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nils Brede Moe ◽  
Darja Šmite ◽  
Maria Paasivaara ◽  
Casper Lassenius
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Development ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Organizational Control ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Development Organizations ◽  
Multiple Case ◽  
Agile Software ◽  
And Control

AbstractAgile methods and the related concepts of employee empowerment, self-management, and autonomy have reached large-scale software organizations and raise questions about commonly adopted principles for authority distribution. However, the optimum mechanism to balance the need for alignment, quality, and process control with the need or willingness of teams to be autonomous remains an unresolved issue. In this paper, we report our findings from a multiple-case study in two large-scale software development organizations in the telecom industry. We analysed the autonomy of the agile teams in the organizations using Hackman’s classification of unit authority and found that the teams were partly self-managing. Further, we found that alignment across teams can be achieved top-down by management and bottom-up through membership in communities or through dialogue between the team and management. However, the degree of team autonomy was limited by the need for organizational alignment. Top-down alignment and control were maintained through centralized decision-making for certain areas, the use of supervisory roles, mandatory processes, and checklists. One case employed a bottom-up approach to alignment through the formation of a community composed of all teams, experts, and supporting roles, but excluding managers. This community-based alignment involved teams in decision-making and engaged them in alignment initiatives. We conclude that implementation of such bottom-up structures seems to provide one possible mechanism for balancing organizational control and team autonomy in large-scale software development.

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