TY - JOUR T1 - A Method and Tool to Support the Management of Systems Engineering Projects JF - Technology Innovation Management Review Y1 - 2015 A1 - Claude Baron A1 - Philippe Esteban A1 - Rui Xue A1 - Daniel Esteve A1 - Michel Malbert KW - collaborative engineering KW - decision support KW - engineering processes KW - project management KW - system design KW - systems engineering KW - systems engineering standards AB - Too many industrial projects still fail, mainly due to the managerial techniques used. Indeed, organizational processes are more or less specifically mentioned in systems engineering standards, but in practice, project managers tend to rely more on their own standards, which sometimes set forth practices that do not align with those of the systems engineering domain, hence the reported discrepancies that very often lead to project failure. Thus, we argue that, to improve the companies’ competitiveness when developing new products, cooperation between processes related to system development and project management is key to achieving performance and success. This article presents arguments that tend to support this assertion and introduces an ongoing project to develop both a method and tool that aim to integrate both domains. PB - Talent First Network CY - Ottawa VL - 5 UR - http://timreview.ca/article/878 IS - 3 U1 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Claude Baron is a Professor of Computer Sciences at the National Institute of Applied Sciences (INSA) of the University of Toulouse, France. She teaches systems engineering, system design and modelling, and system reliability for real-time and critical embedded software systems in master's programs. Her current research focuses on systems engineering, collaborative engineering, and project management in engineering projects. She develops her research activities in the LAAS-CNRS laboratory in Toulouse. She is the author or co-author of many international articles and several books, and she has received IEEE and INCOSE awards for her work. U2 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Philippe Esteban is Associate Professor at the University of Toulouse, France. He conducts his research on systems engineering at the LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research). He is an expert in the domain of the design and verification of complex and hybrids systems. His predilection domain of application is embedded systems. U3 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Rui Xue is a PhD Candidate at LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research) in Toulouse, France. She received her ME degree in Computer Software and Theory in the year 2012 from Jilin University, China. Her PhD topic is about systems engineering, project management, system modelling, decision processes, and decision engineering. U4 - LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS Daniel Esteve is Emeritus Research Director at LAAS Laboratory of the CNRS (French National Center for Sciences and Research) in Toulouse, France. In 1968, he joined the LAAS-CNRS to participate in the development of microelectronics. In 1974, his research work took a new turn towards the management of different programs. In 1981, he was appointed Director of LAAS and later became Head of the Electronics and Computer Sciences Department at the French Ministry of Research and Technology. He is now Emeritus Research Director, and his investigations mainly concern the development of tools and processes needed in the design of complex systems and microsystems. Dr. Esteve has been awarded the CNRS medal of research (1969 and 1976) and the BLONDEL medal. U5 - Michel Malbert is an entrepreneur and consultant, and he holds a doctorate in Physics from the University of Toulouse. For more than thirty years, he was the CEO and founder of a company involved in applied mathematics. Its main activities were to model and simulate the interaction between elementary particles and matter, and to apply statistical methods to industrial problems. His interests include modelling, simulation, Monte Carlo methods, and others statistical methods. ER -