ESD.36
System Project Management
Fall 2012
Topics
- L1: Class Introduction
- L2: Critical Path Method
- L3: Critical Chain Method
- L4: Design Structure Matrix (DSM)
- L5: Managing Iterations with DSM
- L6: Introduction to Project Dynamics
- L7: The Rework Cycle
- L8:Project Dynamics Simulations
- L9: Probabilistic Scheduling
- L10: Budgeting and Cost Control
- L11: Risk Management
- L12: Project Strategic Issues
- Case 3: Software Project
- L13: Project Dynamics Cases
- L14: Humans and Projects
- Case 4: Student Voted Project
- L15: Organizations and Projects
- L16: Complexity in Project Organizations
- L17: Managing International Projects
- L18: Multi-Project Program Management
- L19: Project Management Resources
- Project Presentations
- Project Presentations (cont.)
- L20: Class Summary–Success Factors
Readings
- The students will be asked to read draft chapters of the following book:
- [de Weck] = de Weck, O., and J. Lyneis. Successfully Designing and Managing Complex Projects . 1st ed. MIT Press, 2014 (in preparation).
- This textbook is being written to support this class and is currently under development. The book will be part of the new Engineering Systems book series published by MIT Press.
- SES #: 1 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Introduction to Project Management”
- SES #: 2 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Network Planning Techniques”
- SES #: 3 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Critical Chain Method”
- SES #: 4 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Design Structure Matrix Method”
- SES #: 6 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Introduction to Project Dynamics”—Chapter SD1
- SES #: 7 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Causes of Project Dynamics”—Chapter SD2
- SES #: 8 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “A simple Model of Project Dynamics”—Chapter SD3
- SES #: 8 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: Vensim Tutorial—Appendix SDA—Introduction to Project Dynamics Modeling Using Vensim PLE
- SES #: 10 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Budgeting and Cost Control”
- SES #: 10 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: Earned Value Management (EVM)—Gold Card
- SES #: 11 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Risk Management”
- SES #: 13 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: HBS Case: 9-396-311, BAE Automated Systems (A): Denver International Airport Baggage-Handling System.
- SES #: 14 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: HBS Case: 9-601-040, The Rise and Fall of Iridium : Case Study about the Iridium Low Earth Orbit Communications System.
- SES #: 14 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: Sloan Foundation Engineering Systems Study: (de Weck, de Neufville) Low Earth Orbit Satellite Communication Constellations—Inspired by the history of Iridium and Globalstar. Read Module 1: Technical Success and Economic Failure.
- SES #: 16 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: James Lyneis, Kenneth Cooper, and Sharon Els, “Strategic Management of Complex Projects,” System Dynamics Review, Fall 2001.
- SES #: 16 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Strategic Project Management”—SD4
- SES #: 17 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: Take the MBTI Personality Test—URL will be provided.
- SES #: 19 · CHAPTERS, ARTICLES AND HANDOUTS: [de Weck] “Organizations and Projects”
- Steve, McConnell. Rapid Development: Taming Wild Software Schedules. Microsoft Press, 1996. ISBN: 9781556159008.
- Forsberg, Kevin, Hal Mooz, et al. Visualizing Project Management, A Model for Business and Technical Success . 3rd ed., John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2005.
- Goldratt, Eliyahu M. Critical Chain . The North River Press, 1997.
- Highsmith, James, Adaptive Software Development: A Collaborative Approach to Managing Complex Systems . Dorset House Publishing, 1999. ISBN: 9780932633408.
- Kerzner, Harold. Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling . 9th ed., Wiley, 2009. ISBN: 9780470278703.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗Historical OpenCourseWare
- MIT OCW readings ↗
- MIT OCW calendar ↗
- MIT OCW syllabus ↗
- Historical MIT OpenCourseWare offering. Named reading entries and schedule topics are automatically extracted from the linked source pages.