Strategic program management in a constrained product development environment

Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014. === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (page 64). === Enterprises involved in research and development are often confronted with making de...

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Main Author: Gadewadikar, Jyotirmay
Other Authors: Patrick Hale.
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: Massachusetts Institute of Technology 2016
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105295
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Summary:Thesis: S.M. in Engineering and Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, 2014. === Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. === Includes bibliographical references (page 64). === 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. === by Jyotirmay Gadewadikar. === S.M. in Engineering and Management