PROJECT ANALYTICS IN THE AEROSPACE INDUSTRY

Award Winner, 2020 Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Vancouver, CA

Problem. What does digitalization mean for a project-based organization? How do you learn from successes and failures across many projects, when teams do not have time to engage in project post-mortems?

Data. We created a project data mesh by merging project time sheets, project control data and HR records. The data mesh enabled understanding the effect of project practices on project performance, leveraging data on over 400 projects.

Conclusions. Three practices positively affected project margins by more than 10%: subcontracting team members, project back-loading and sharing staff across projects

Benefit for the company: Learning how to reuse project control data to identifying best practices or challenging wrong practices that people keep using. 

Leading Unit

Sponsors

Team

  • Fabrizio Salvador
  • Emmanouil Avgerinos
  • Antoaneta Momcheva