Creating successful products has never been more challenging. It seems like complexity time after time find ways to grow in new dimensions. Technological, market, legal, organizational, and human complexity must all be mastered to keep up with competition. If you want to run faster, or keep your lead, there are simply no free lunches.

However, there are low-hanging fruits to harvest, or to use as stepping stones. When creating tech-intensive products, close integration of project management with your development approach is a vital success factor. That is also an area with large room for improvements in most organisations.

Systems engineering managementprovides a powerful and comprehensive toolbox with the potential to leverage traditional project management and among many other things:

• Better scope your project and products, helping you to address the real issues and select the most appropriate development methodology addressing your most critical challenges.
• Define project and product success more strategically. It’s good to deliver on time and to meet the budget, but that's far from enough to make your organization thrive.
• Establish a common language among your stakeholdersincluding customers, project sponsors, and top-management. Too often we fail just because stakeholders are not able to understand each other!   
• Better understand your risksand how to continuously manage them, throughout the project life cycle. In fact, good risk management is often a hidden opportunity.
• Introduce a balance of rigor, flexibility and resiliencein your product development process to lead your projects towards their goals.

Systems engineering managementblends nicely with other knowledge areas such as lean and integrated product development, product management, software engineering , and enterprise architecture. It even has the potential to help you connect the dots between them.

Would you like to learn more?Contact us for a discussion how this applies to you, or check out our courses in Systems engineering management presented in Sweden (April 26-28) and Finland (May 10-12).