Towards the success of design projects by the alignment of processes in collaborative engineering

摘要

With increasingly complex systems, relying on systems engineering (SE) as an interdisciplinary method to manage engineering processes is becoming essential for companies. However, too many projects still fail and industrial groups have argued that these failures may be related to the managerial techniques used. Indeed organizational processes are more or less specifically mentioned in SE standards but in practice project managers tend to rely more on their own standards which sometime set forth practices not in line with those of the SE domain, hence the reported discrepancies which very often lead to project failure. Thus to improve the companies' competitiveness when developing new products, cooperation between processes related to system development and project management (PM) is key to getting performance and success. This paper presents arguments which tend to support this theory and introduces an ongoing project with a method and tool aiming to integrate both domains.