Project Management vs. Systems Engineering Management: A ...

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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.

relationships and interactions between the architecture of systems, their development projects, and the organizational teams involved, should be aligned in order for a company to become successful [Eppinger and Salminen, 2001]. These observations call for a fresh look at the methods and tools systems engineering managers use in an attempt to bring

  Architecture, System