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Managing Complex Technical Projects
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MIT University 
Overview

Reduce the complexity involved in large projects by restructuring development and management procedures in ways that produces small-team results

Duration

3 days

Total fee

3.12 Lakh

Mode of learning

Online

Course Level

UG Certificate

Managing Complex Technical Projects
 at 
MIT University 
Highlights

  • Earn a certificate of course completion from the MIT Sloan School of Management
  • Learn through lectures, exercises, interactive discussions, and teamwork
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Managing Complex Technical Projects
 at 
MIT University 
Course details

Skills you will learn
Who should do this course?
  • For Vice presidents of engineering, manufacturing, and technology
  • For Directors of project, program or service management
  • For Product, service and business development
  • For Engineering and R&D program managers
  • For Chief project engineers
  • For Product design and process development engineers
  • For Technology strategists
  • For Project leaders
What are the course deliverables?
  • Map existing product development processes using DSM
  • Identify ways to facilitate planned iterations and reduce unplanned iterations
  • Manage technical complexity
  • Model system decomposition and architecture using DSM
  • Find patterns of modularity and integration in systems
  • Restructure development organizations based on system architecture
  • Understand team-based agile development and scrum methods
  • Select the most appropriate agile tools for specific projects
  • Scale planning and coordination in larger agile applications
More about this course
  • Managing complex technical projects is a massive effort well beyond the scope of a simple project plan
  • Complex systems are comprised of hundreds or thousands of interconnected components, each potentially developed by a different group of people distributed over multiple organizations
  • The course focus on the design structure matrix (DSM) method, while the third day teaches modern agile development methods
  • Through lectures, exercises, interactive discussions, and teamwork, you will learn two sets of techniques which you can use to better handle the complexity of large product and service development efforts

Managing Complex Technical Projects
 at 
MIT University 
Curriculum

Day 1

Design Structure Matrix and Process DSM Models

Complex projects, DSM types

Process modeling with DSM

Sequencing exercise

Examples from various industries

Process DSM building exercise

Application discussion

Day 2

System Architecture and Organization DSM Models

Organization DSM and examples

System architecture DSM and examples

DSM building and clustering exercise

Combining system and organization models

System readiness DSM exercise

Application discussion

Day 3

Agile Development Methods

Background and manifesto

Team-based agile (Scrum)

Scaled agile methods

Agile coaching exercise

Course wrap-up and discussion

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Managing Complex Technical Projects
 at 
MIT University 
Faculty details

Steven Eppinger
Steven Eppinger is Professor of Management Science and Innovation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management where he holds the General Motors Leaders for Global Operations Chair. Prof. Eppinger teaches interdisciplinary courses at both the master's and executive levels in product design and innovation, engineering project management, and digital product management.

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