Project manager and systems engineer: a literature rich reflection on roles and responsibilities

Abstract

-There are several definitions of Systems Engineering (SE) in the literature, each with different definitions of its relationship with Project Management (PM), causing a great deal of misunderstanding. The paper offers a broad and critical discussion of the relevant literature with a deep reflection concerning the historical evolution and state-of-the-art of both the definition of SE and its relationship with PM. This endeavor provides two main results: (i) a conceptual framework to define SE in a project based environment and (ii) a model to identify the best formal interaction between the Project Manager and System Engineer based on the project characteristics.

Leadership in project management: a scoping review

“…A scoping review should not be confused with systematic reviews, as systematic reviews do not try to provide evidence from various studies, and the quality of the evidence provided by the studies is usually not evaluated (Arksey and O'Malley, 2005). A scoping review can examine the extent, scope and nature of research activity by mapping information from all relevant literature (Wang and Xing, 2009;Levac et al, 2010;Ngacho and Das, 2015;Locatelli et al, 2017).…”