Why Engineering Projects are Delayed and Overbudgeted? – © Georgios Ardavanis, Ph.D.

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Engineering projects become absurdly expensive because of mismanagement, disputes, and lack of accountability. This is a profound responsibility of the engineering managers as well as the individual engineers because of the lack of stringent processes, Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), Objective Key Results (OKRs), and the lack of strong disposition to achieve self-transcendence.

Such behaviors and professional actions have negative repercussions and a strong disposition to disrupt progress.

Today, engineers are error-prone, impulsive, reluctant, vulnerable to problems, inconclusive, and exhibit rigidity. They disdain the employer’s commitments and expectations, and they cannot meet the Return on Investment (ROI) on them. Thus, after some time in the project, they become defiant, they don’t work diligently, they disseminate manifold impediments and proliferate the disfluencies of their organization while they produce subpar project results.

Alas, their CVs are bogus as well as their technological prowess along with their mismatch of value, while their failure correlation is delineated.

Thus, it is imperative for every engineering organization to foster prudent heartfelt commitments that will be asserted by robust platforms of cognitive and technical skills.

Further, I present a list of common causes of often engineering project failures: (1) Final Design not frozen on time; (2) Product innovation challenges; (3) Process innovation challenges; (4) Late product aesthetic design freeze; (5) Late, incomplete or non-robust definition of project performance and functional requirements; (6) Late interface identification and design; (7) Late changes from the customer or parties outside the project; (8) Useless and unimportant challenges which are caused by the project engineer (representing the client) has as a result to cause schedule delays and overbudgeting; (9) Functional scope of product is incomplete and unfixed. Therefore, the product qualification during the Test and Commissioning and its delivery are out of schedule.   

All the above have a profound impact on the System Engineering Integration in a turnkey project. 

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