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The place of project management within the framework of the systems engineering concept can be seen in Fig. 4.1. Project management is part of the problem-solving process, which we divide into two parts:

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  • 04 September 2021

    The original version of this book has been revised since this book was inadvertently published with few errors.

Notes

  1. 1.

    = Roughly at first; in greater detail later on.

  2. 2.

    See Sect. 1.3.

  3. 3.

    See Sects. 2.2.2, 2.2.3, and 2.4.

  4. 4.

    There is even a Deutsches Institut für Normung (DIN) Standard for it. DIN 69905 defines claim management as “Monitoring and appraisal of deviations or changes and their economic consequences to determine and enforce financial demands.”

  5. 5.

    Inspired by the following publications:

    • Rodov, A.; Teixidó, J. (2016). Blending agile and waterfall

    • Conforto, E.C.; Salum, F.; et al. (2014): Can Agile Project Management Be Adopted by Industries Other than Software Development?

    • Agile Project Management: Best Practices and Methodologies

    • Hoda, R.; Noble, J.; Marshall, S. (2008): Agile Project Management.

    • Karlesky, M.; Van der Noord, M. (2008): Agile Project Management (or: Burning Your Gantt Charts).

    • Howell, D.; Windahl, C.; Seidel, R. (2010): A Project Contingency Framework Based on Uncertainty and Its Consequences.

    • Bashir, M.S.; Qureshi, M.R.J. (2012): Hybrid Software Development Approach For Small to Medium Scale Projects

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Haberfellner, R., de Weck, O., Fricke, E., Vössner, S. (2019). Project Management. In: Systems Engineering. Birkhäuser, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13431-0_4

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