10.2.0 Panel 10.2.0: Integrating Systems Engineering with Program and Project Management

Program/project management and systems engineering teams must be tightly integrated or program risk skyrockets. Effective integration demands clarity of roles and underlying competencies, as well as mutually supportive processes, tools, and training. Generally, the best program/project managers have been systems engineers and the best systems engineers have been program/project managers. Career paths should encourage and enable that type of movement. The panel will highlight the diverse ways in which different organizations have approached integration between program/project management and systems engineering and will provide both an entertaining and informative discussion of the tradeoffs between those approaches. Give some thought to how you and your organization approach this topic today, then jot down some questions and bring them with you to the presentation for our panel to address. After you have heard the answers, you can decide how you will change the way you approach Systems Engineering and Project Management.