October 17-18, 2026
Online and at Institute of Science Tokyo, Tamachi Campus
3-3-6, Shibaura, Minato-ku, Tokyo 108-0023, Japan
Presented in collaboration with Institute of Science Tokyo
How can we move from experience-based to dynamic, innovative, and adaptive decisions and teamwork? What will be the role of AI in how organizations are structured, coordinated, and perform?
Today, our most complex projects promise new opportunities: Transition to new energy. Autonomous vehicles. Robotics and AI-supported services. Smart materials and smart cities. Breakthrough medicine, agriculture, and maritime systems. However, these exciting opportunities are uncertain and complex, and traditional project management may not be well-suited.
These innovative products and services have the potential to transform our society, if only we can change the way we decide, design, implement, and coordinate.
Based on the latest research and engineering teamwork courses taught at MIT, Dr. Moser will present recent advances in computation-supported teamwork, including model-based project management, agent-based modeling, and instrumented teamwork analytics. The course will be taught in Japanese, with bilingual content throughout.
Instructor
Dr. Bryan R. Moser is Academic Director of System Design & Management (SDM) and a Senior Lecturer at MIT. He directs the Global Teamwork Lab (GTL). He is also a Professor at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, and a Senior Researcher at the University of Tokyo.
Prior to returning to MIT in 2014, he worked for 25 years in industry, as a research engineer at the Basic Science Lab (A.I.) of Nissan Motor Company, as a Senior Research Scientist at United Technologies Corporation, and as founder and president of Global Project Design, a firm pioneering software and methods for model-based project management.
Moser focuses on engineering teamwork for complex systems problems and the use of model-based methods to improve the performance of diverse teams. Moser received a bachelor’s in computer science and Engineering in 1987 and a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1989. His doctorate in 2012 is from the University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences.
Who Should Attend
- Leaders of technological and research departments or projects needing to move from experience and document-based planning to dynamic, agile performance based on models and analytics.
- Technical professionals who want to gain capabilities to build project models, simulate teamwork performance, improve project forecasting, and deploy project digital twins for ongoing agility.
- CEOs, entrepreneurs, and functional managers who want to create new business models and scale up operations adaptively and more rapidly than traditional approaches.
- Academics and corporate learning professionals who would like to learn the latest pedagogy and methods to teach advanced project management and model-based teamwork.
Learning Objectives
- As a reminder of project management fundamentals, understanding the variety of canonical project types (waterfall, spiral, set-based, agile…) and how these projects function differently.
- Generate a project plan that is feasible given scope, resources, roles, dependencies, and risks.
- Model a project as integrated product, process, and organizational system. Leverage dynamic modeling to forecast emergent outcomes including rework.
- Recommend a plan to stakeholders with a trade-space of alternatives across cost, schedule, scope, and risk.
- Credibly challenge unrealistic expectations related to project cost, schedule, scope, and risk. Lead others to shift attention, analyze, learn, and adapt.
- Apply a systems model of the project linked to real performance as a digital twin and adapt the project design and behaviors for agile performance.
We will hold an info session for this special program on September 15, 8 AM Eastern / 9 PM JST.
Schedule
This course will be taught by MIT at the Institute of Science, Tokyo, Tamachi Campus. Based on the MIT educational model, the courses will be active-learning, with intensive discussion and hands-on teamwork. Students will access online resources and tools throughout the course and several months after. The course includes 22 hours of online and in-person learning over 3 sessions and 9 modules.
Saturday, October 10 – Online
9:30-10:30
1. Introduction and Fundamentals
2. Classical Methods and Canonical Projects
Saturday, October 17 – In Person
9:30-16:30
3. Projects as Systems
4. System Elements
5. System Relationships
Sunday, October 18 – In Person
9:30-17:30
6. Model-based Simulation
7. Project Tradespaces
8. Project Digital Twins and Agility
Saturday, November 14 – Online
9:30-11:30
9. Capstone Reviews and the Future of Project Management
Fees
The cost of the program is $2,000 USD for individuals. Please contact us directly if you are company sponsored.
Space is limited for this exciting program. Register now and we’ll see you this fall!
If you have questions about the program, contact us at sdm-profcert@mit.edu.