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Project Management vs. Systems EngineeringManagement: A Practitioners View onIntegrating the Project and Product DomainsAmira Sharon,1, * Olivier L. de Weck,2 and Dov Dori11Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management , Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa 32000, Israel2Engineering Systems Division, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02139PROJECT Management VS. Systems Engineering MANAGEMENTReceived 3 August 2010; Revised 18 December 2010; Accepted 18 December 2010, after one or more revisionsPublished online in Wiley Online Library ( ). DOI most Systems Engineering Management (SEM) applications use some subset of traditional ProjectManagement (PM) methods and tools, the actual practice of Systems Engineering Management involvescontinuous cognitive zigzagging between Systems Engineering the product domain and Project man-agement the Project domain.

Systems Engineering (SE) and Project Management (PM) are two tightly intertwined domains as stated in the Handbook of Systems Engineering and Management by Sage and Rouse [2009]. The handbook is a recent detailed source for a frame-work to SEM and its applicati on for various types of systems. Systems Engineering Management (SEM) utilizes some com-

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