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Main Risks of Aerospace Engineering Projects: How to Implement Wise Risk Management into Your Organization

Epicflow Blog

The aerospace engineering sector deals with mostly large and complex projects. Accordingly, they are more vulnerable to the consequences of risk-bearing events. When unmanaged, these risks can impact people’s safety and, to make matters worse, come down to considerable financial losses. . Project management risks.

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2022 Aerospace and Defense Industry Trends

Epicflow Blog

Aerospace and defense industry is gradually recovering from the pandemic consequences, but still remains vulnerable as the world hasn’t fully overcome this crisis yet. Currently, A&D organizations are expected to leverage latest technologies and focus on technological and operational improvements to address the sustainability challenge.

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Project Portfolio Management in Aerospace and Defense Organizations: Main Difficulties and Ways to Overcome Them

Epicflow Blog

In the aerospace and defense industry, it’s intensified by the specificity and complexity of the domain. What are the most significant challenges of project portfolio management in aerospace and defense companies? Managing project portfolios is rather demanding in itself. Let’s figure these issues out in the article.

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Aerospace and Defense Industry 2022: Project Management Challenges and Ways to Address Them

Epicflow Blog

In the previous article , we’ve reviewed the most prominent trends that are expected to impact the aerospace and defense industry this year. Challenges In the Aerospace & Defense Projects . the number of projects underway in the aerospace and defense organizations will be increasing. Let’s consider the example.

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The Evolution of Project Management

The IIL Blog

Private Sector Project Manager Selection The birth of modern-day project management is most frequently attributed to the engineering community, mainly aerospace and defense. Since almost all of the projects were technical in nature, two criteria were established for someone to be appointed as a project manager (PM). This appeased DoD.

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The Growth of Assistant Project Managers

The IIL Blog

Skills Needed: The Early Years In the 1950s and 1960s, the aerospace and defense industry contractors were the heaviest users of project management and established many of the forms, guidelines, templates, and checklists that were later updated to become the standards for project management. Human relations skills were not seen as a priority.

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Agile Revolution in the Defense Industry

Scrum.org

Firehawk Aerospace 3D prints rockets and a solid form of fuel to launch them. Any change forces teams to wait for each other, while generating risks on the overall product quality. The case where interfaces belong to third parties adds another layer of risk to product quality. The company uses only common chemical components.

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