Project management and engineering issues

Abstract

Starting with some attributes specific to a project manager’s work, the paper presents the functions which must be performed by a project leader – planning, organizing, staffing, directing, motivating, leading – and makes a parallelism between the activities of managers and of engineers. The paper also refers to the principles of concurrent engineering, a new approach which replaces conventional sequential engineering in product design, the relationship between projects and other production systems and shows the steps of the transition from engineer to project manager.