The management of automotive design projects provides a window into how to handle other complex development and manufacturing efforts.

So say authors Jon Quigley and Kim Pries, who use examples from their work managing automotive projects to draw lessons for a broader set of complex and embedded projects. The goal is ensuring product integrity.

They draw comparisons between key aspects of auto project management such as standards requirements and the parts approval process to examine how these steps can be applied to larger, complex management challenges.

View the first chapter of their book, "Project Management of Complex and Embedded Systems," here.