Enabling Program Success: PMI INCOSE and MIT Find Best Practices

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Wasting time and money shouldn’t be dismissed as the cost of doing business on engineering programs. Organizations have the power to cut down on waste, but only if they know where it comes from and how to stop it.

To help organizations reduce program risk and improve ROI, PMI and the International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) worked with experts from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) to conduct an in-depth study called Lean Enablers for Managing Engineering Programs.

“The study was the product of a collaboration across three domains of management wisdom: lean management, systems engineering and program management,” says Eric Norman, PMP, PgMP, managing partner at Norman & Norman Consulting, Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Mr. Norman is the main PMI contributor to the Joint INCOSE-PMI-MIT Lean Program Management Community of Practice, as well as chair of the PMI committee creating The Standard for Program Management—Third Edition.

The result is a powerful snapshot of not only the key challenges faced on major engineering programs, but also 300 “lean enablers,” or best practices, that effective teams and organizations can use to overcome those challenges.

“Application of lean enablers is designed to reduce and/or eliminate waste,” says Josef Oehmen, PhD, a research scientist at MIT’s Lean…

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