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7.5.1 Capacity for Engineering Systems Thinking (CEST) and Project Success
Author(s) -
Frank Moti,
Sadeh Arik,
Ashkenasi Sharon
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
incose international symposium
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-5837
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-5837.2011.tb01251.x
Subject(s) - novelty , project management , moderation , project management triangle , computer science , engineering management , process management , knowledge management , engineering , systems engineering , psychology , social psychology , machine learning
Despite the vast amount of literature available on systems engineering and project management, about two‐thirds of all projects still fail. A review of both project management and systems engineering publications reveals that most of these works focus on processes. We suggest focusing on people – project managers and systems engineers. One of our previous studies dealt with project managers; the current paper focuses on systems engineers. The paper presents findings of a study aimed at exploring the relationship between systems engineers' capacity for engineering systems thinking (CEST), project types and project success. The study findings show that there is a significant correlation between CEST and project success. The extent of the project's novelty is a moderator variable that affects this correlation. The more innovative the project is, the higher the correlation between the subjects' CEST and project success.