Project Management and Systems Engineering Integration for Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness.

Powell, Benjamin J. (2023) Project Management and Systems Engineering Integration for Increased Efficiency and Effectiveness. [USQ Project]

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Abstract

As our knowledge base become more advance in the areas of Project Management, we should be seeing a larger trend of projects and programs being completed successfully to customer requirements within budget and time constraints, yet media and industry reports suggest that in Australia only 51% of projects are likely to meet the intended goals and business commitment. Project Managers are often undertrained and use methodology that is either outdated or is so broad in its context that it does not give adequate feedback on where risks lie in budget, resource and timeline. Standards such as the PMBOK® of ISO 21500 are used as guidelines in the understanding on the domains of project management but give little in the way for framework for how a Project Manager is to accurately record and work to the desired outcomes of the stakeholders.

The purpose of this research is to utilise the knowledge base and practices of System Engineering to better define and tailor Project Management artifacts so that Project Managers and organisations can make more informed decisions. Hopefully in doing this a secondary objective will be some metric or Key Performance Indicators that will suggest if a project is being managed correctly through the different stages of initiating, planning, implementing, controlling, and closing.

The research will be conducted by the review of all relevant information in the field of Project Management and System Engineering before analysing real projects and project management teams from the Kongsberg Aviation Maintenance Services (KAMS), Maintenance, Repair & Overhaul facilities located in Norway. From there the cumulative date will be presented based on the perspective of the KAMS staff to create a framework with suggested tailoring for optimisation of Project Management.


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Item Type: USQ Project
Item Status: Live Archive
Faculty/School / Institute/Centre: Current – Faculty of Health, Engineering and Sciences - School of Engineering (1 Jan 2022 -)
Supervisors: Goh, Steven
Qualification: Bachelor or Engineering (Honours) (Mechanical)
Date Deposited: 01 Oct 2025 03:42
Last Modified: 01 Oct 2025 03:42
Uncontrolled Keywords: Project Management; Complexity; System Engineering; PMBOK; SEBOK; Tailoring
URI: https://sear.unisq.edu.au/id/eprint/52991

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