Commercial Aircraft Projects

When it comes to highly complex, commercially funded product development projects it is not sufficient to apply standard management techniques to keep them under control. These projects need an approach specifically adapted to their complex nature. This, however, may generate additional cost. The development of a new commercial aircraft is no exception. In fact, it can be regarded as an extreme example of this kind of project. This is why it is especially useful to analyze the project management capabilities and practices needed to address them. This book goes beyond descriptions of management disciplines found elsewhere in its treatment of the architecture integration necessary to interlink product, process and resources data. Only with this connectedness can the interoperation of the management essentials yield maximum efficiency and effectiveness. Commercial Aircraft Projects: Managing the Development of Highly Complex Products proposes an integrated, step-by-step approach to be used for the management of commercial aircraft development projects. The findings can also be applied to other industrial sectors that produce complex hardware based on design inputs.