Modular analysis is a mean to manage complexity in system design processes in order to achieve competitive advantage. It identifies highly interactive groups of components and/or functions which can potentially form good modules. Among various modular analysis approaches, Design Structure Matrix (DSM) method has proved to be an efficient matrix-based

Managing complex projects is quite possibly the most difficult profession devised by man. Dealing with increasing complexity, uncertainty, and ambiguity while trying to maintain consistency in budget, schedule, and performance can challenge the most seasoned project and systems engineering manager. This presentation will examine several contemporary challenges facing project and

Complex System Governance is an advanced systems approach that offers project practitioners new and novel insights to improve complex project performance, including: 1. Identification of 'deep system' failure modes for projects beyond traditional cost, schedule, and performance deficiencies 2. Examination of systems based failures in design, execution, or development of

The Complex System Governance (CSG) model foundationally fuses these disciplines in new governance meta-functions. Further the associated pathological approach developed for CSG implementation provides a path of least resistance and thus greatest parsimony for such change management. In this presentation we overview research illustrating the CSG underpinnings with the concepts

A group of engineering projects are examined, all o which failed in a disastrous way, leading to deaths, or failed in spectacularly exceeding the proposed budget. The projects include two NASA projects which had deaths, The Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear plant, BP's Deepwater oil platform in the Mexican Gulf and the

Defence systems acquisition is fraught with all sorts of financial, technical and political risks. The most effective way of mitigating risks associated with acquisition of complex systems is through identification of these risks as early as concept examination phase. One possible avenue to de-risk complex acquisition projects is through the