Integrated Product Development shared management by Systems Engineers and Project Managers

The development of a complex system is managed by Systems Engineering (SE) and Project Management (PM) practitioners. An integrated team is essential to take advantage of both disciplines and develop the product efficiently. This paper summarizes several models collected from literature and organizations that list SE and PM responsibilities and the overlap between the areas in which responsibilities are shared. The purpose is to analyze the processes classified by most of the models as shared responsibility in a matrix to propose levels of involvement of each specialist in these processes. The result is a beginning to document the processes and to establish roles and responsibilities in the development of a product and in which processes SE and PM should interact to properly manage the activities in the shared space.