Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes (Best Practices in Portfolio, Program, and Project Management)

Research and development (R&D) activities do not fit the traditional project model.They may seem difficult to manage because of their inherent ambiguity, the need for creative exploration, and often the lack of having defined milestones and outcomes.However, project management methods, along with systems engineering as a complementary discipline, provide the ability to categorize R&D activities, bound them, and then assess progress along a defined course of action.They also provide information about status and progress, visibility into opportunities and challenges that might otherwise be missed, allowing timely course corrections. Project Management for Research and Development: Guiding Innovation for Positive R&D Outcomes, Second Edition, provides methods for optimizing results in R&D by using structured processes that come from project management and are intertwined with the key complementary discipline of systems engineering.It provides processes, tools, and techniques to assess and