Managing Complex Technical Projects: A Systems Engineering Approach, Second Edition - Hardcover

Faulconbridge, Ian; Ryan, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1685691315 ISBN 13: 9781685691318

Verlag: Artech House Publishers, 2026

Inhaltsangabe

Managing Complex Technical Projects: A Systems Engineering Approach, Second Edition delivers a disciplined framework for planning, executing, and delivering complex engineered systems in today's high-risk, high-interdependency environments. Modern technical programs in aerospace, transportation, energy, and communications demand tight coordination across global teams, compressed schedules, and rapidly changing technologies. Integrating project management and systems engineering into a single, coherent approach enables teams to deliver systems that meet performance requirements, schedule constraints, and cost targets.

Grounded in the complete system life cycle, practitioners discover how stakeholder needs are translated into functional and physical architectures, designs, and verification strategies across conceptual, preliminary, detailed design, and production phases. Dive deep into the core practices of systems engineering management, linking life- cycle planning, configuration control, and performance measurement with practical tools such as requirements traceability, system modeling, and risk-informed decision making. The text also examines contemporary development approaches, including waterfall, incremental, evolutionary, spiral, and Agile methods, and clarifies their implications for engineering management, assurance, and logistics.

Serving project managers, systems engineers, and advanced engineering students, this reference clarifies how systems engineering, project management, and business analysis intersect in large technical programs. By emphasizing disciplined integration and early risk control, it equips practitioners to manage complexity, control interdependencies, and avoid costly overruns and performance failures. The result is a practical foundation for delivering large-scale engineering systems with confidence in an increasingly complex project environment.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Artech House Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2026
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1685691315
• ISBN 13: 9781685691318
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 286
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