학술논문

Toward an Improved Monitoring of Engineering Projects
Document Type
Periodical
Source
IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern, Syst. Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems, IEEE Transactions on. 50(10):3541-3553 Oct, 2020
Subject
Signal Processing and Analysis
Robotics and Control Systems
Power, Energy and Industry Applications
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
Components, Circuits, Devices and Systems
Computing and Processing
General Topics for Engineers
Monitoring
Indexes
Companies
Stakeholders
Decision making
Proposals
Tools
Decision-making
monitoring
performance indicators
project management (PM)
systems engineering (SE)
Language
ISSN
2168-2216
2168-2232
Abstract
With the growing economic pressure, one lever for companies to be competitive is to efficiently monitor projects. To this goal, the different processes involved in the project must be carefully supervised and the project manager needs to be well-informed on their state and progress to take the best decisions thanks to accurate performances of indicators, process, and project. Another key factor of successful decision-making in engineering projects beyond taking into account information from the project manager on the project management (PM) is to consider information from the systems engineer on the product development. This paper proposes a process to monitor engineering projects relying on a set of project performance indicators that integrate the views of both project manager and systems engineer. This process includes three main activities: 1) defining project performance indicators related to the processes described by international guides and standards; 2) valuating and weighting these indicators by consulting project managers and systems engineers; and 3) constructing a hierarchical framework of indexes to support project monitoring. This proposal thus refers to the practices described in PM and systems engineering norms and improves them by involving project managers and systems engineers into decision-making, with the goal to take more coherent decisions.