Strategic program management in a constrained product development environment

Enterprises involved in research and development are often confronted with making decisions for allocating resources between multiple programs and projects. This work addresses the problem of managing research projects and programs in such organizations. This work presents how to allocate resources among the competing projects, whose properties are only partially known initially and better understood as time passes. This work presents a system theoretic program level management tool customized for research and product development organizations. Good practices from Systems Engineering, Product Development and Project Management are included in the analysis. This work also presents an implementation framework with a real case example with supporting quantitative results at an Engineering Product Development Organization.

Department dc:contributor.department

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Engineering Systems Division.

Grantor dc:publisher

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Year dc:date.issued

2014

Author dc:creator

• Gadewadikar, Jyotirmay

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Patrick Hale.

• Engineering Systems Division.
• System Design and Management Program.

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• M.I.T. theses are protected by copyright. They may be viewed from this source for any purpose, but reproduction or distribution in any format is prohibited without written permission. See provided URL for inquiries about permission.

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• http://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/7582

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105295

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/105295