Systems Engineering and Project Management: Key Principles

This presentation provides an overview of systems engineering and its relevance to project management, emphasizing systems thinking as a holistic approach to analysis. It covers the fundamentals of systems thinking, including interconnectedness, synthesis, emergence, feedback loops, causality, and system mapping, highlighting their importance in innovation through rapid learning, adaptation, impact, and innovation. The presentation also discusses systems engineering characteristics such as a holistic approach, domain knowledge, risk management, and complexity management, alongside dimensions like multidisciplinary teams and system modularization. Furthermore, it elaborates on the system life cycle, from feasibility and analysis to design, implementation, and maintenance, noting the relevance of systems engineering to project management and concluding with the importance of an exploratory stage in complex system engineering. Desklib provides access to similar presentations and solved assignments for students.

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
AND PROJECT
MANAGEMENT

INTRODUCTION
System engineering
and system
thinking in project
management are
the major factors
that must be
considered for
development of a
product or service.
The project chosen
for this presentation
is developing of an
operating system.
Picture 1: System
engineering
(Source: Turner, 2014,
p. 76)

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING AND
PROJECT MANAGEMENT
 System engineering and project management are
required for proper product development.
 Management of various systems projects is a
foundational course for a system engineering program.
 In the project of software development, systems
engineering was utilized in modifications that were to
be made in the older version of the system. the
proportion of subsystems were also changed.
 Success of the technical project was dependent on the
integrated approach of systems engineering and the
way professionals utilized it.

SYSTEMS THINKING
 System thinking is
generally defines as a
holistic approach to the
analysis which
concentrates on a way
using which its constituents
parts of the system relate
to each other.
 In the project, systems
thinking had helped in
linking different parts of
operating system to each
other.
 It also dealt with how the
system would work over
time and in context of huge
systems.
Picture 2: systems
thinking
(Source: Chapman,
2018, p. 85)

FUNDAMENTALS OF SYSTEM
THINKING
 Interconnectedn
ess
 Synthesis
 Emergence
 Feedback loops
 Causality
 System mapping
Picture 3: fundamentals
of systems thinking
(Source: Kerzner &
Kerzner, 2017 , p. 85)

IMPORTANCE OF SYSTEMS
THINKING TO INNOVATION
 Rapid learning:
understanding the big
picture of implementation
of the operating system.
 Rapid adaptation:
identifying patterns of
how the system would
work.
 Rapid impact: solving real
problems faced by people
using older version of
system.
 Rapid innovation:
elimination of bloats. Picture 4: tools of a
system thinker
(Source: Nicholas &
Steyn, 2017, p. 396)

SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
 Systems engineering can be
defined as the discipline which
makes the success of system
engineer possible. This helped
in providing a substantial
advance in the entire
performance of the operating
system.
 System engineering is an
approach that is
interdisciplinary in nature and
aims in enabling the realization
of various successful systems.
This had helped in
understanding how successful
was the system in satisfying
customers.
Picture 5: system
engineering
(Source: Turner, 2014,
p. 248)

CHARACTERISTICS OF
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
 A specific holistic
balanced approach.
 Domain knowledge
along with creativity in
developing the system.
 Coping with various
changes and risks.
 Managing various
complexities faced in
the development.
 Reusing the experience
in net projects.
Picture 6: system
engineering approach and
system properties
(Source: Chapman, 2018, p.

CHARACTERISTICS OF
SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
 User driven approach.
 Comprehension of numerous disciplines.
 Improving performance of a specific team.
 Management of data.
 Linkage to numerous business goals.

DIMENSIONS OF SYSTEMS
ENGINEERING
Some dimensions that
have been used in
development process are
as follows
 Multidisciplinary team-
Supporters or supporters,
cradle.
 Systems life cycle- Grave,
workers, elements.
 System modularization-
workers, whole.
Picture 7: system engineering
approach and system properties
(Source: Kerzner & Kerzner, 2017,

SYSTEMS LIFE CYCLE
 System life cycle can be
defined as a series of various
stages that are put into work
while a new information is
developed. The data received
from every stage of
development was useful in
further stages.
 Huge amount of time and
money can be wasted if a
developed system does not
work properly. The project
faced some issues as well and
enough time and resources
were wasted for removing the
issues Picture 8: system
life cycle
(Source: Turner,
2014, p. 20)

FEASIBILITY AND ANALYSIS
 Feasibility is the initial
part of systems life
cycle.
 This was considered as
a specific investigation
which was done by the
analyst of the
developed system.
 This stage found out
the major issues in the
present system and the
possibility of the team
to solve the problem.
 During analysis
stage, analysis the
present system was
investigated.
 This stage identified
that what actually
the problems are in
an existing system.
 This stage made use
of various methods
of fact- finding for
gathering data.