System Project Management
System and product development projects get a structured management framework in this MIT OpenCourseWare subject from the Engineering Systems Division. The material covers four phases: project preparation, planning, monitoring, and adaptation. Classical scheduling techniques like CPM and PERT get a brief review before the course moves into newer tools such as the Design Structure Matrix, probabilistic project simulation, and project system dynamics. Topics are framed at strategic, tactical, and operational levels, and industrial case studies examine what actually drives success and failure in complex hardware and software projects. Term projects ask students to analyze a past or ongoing project in their own area of interest, applying the frameworks discussed in lecture. Materials include the syllabus, lecture notes, and assignments, free to access under MIT's open license, with no certificate offered.