Accessing decision-making in software design

Christiaans, Henri; Almendra, Rita Assoreira

doi:10.1016/j.destud.2010.09.005

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“…The need to integrate different technologies, and thus project management, has emerged as an important discipline to achieve these objectives. The functionality of new production systems serving changing markets is crucial in responding to shorter product lifecycles and market dynamics (Christiaans & Almendra, 2010).…”

Section: Competitive Design Management In Global Firmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planned Obsolescence, Total Quality, Zero Defects and Global Competition

Brondoni

2018

Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management

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A global firm's success is conditioned by its ability to manage the system of intangible corporate assets (corporate culture, corporate identity, and information system) and intangible product assets (product design, brand equity and pre/aftersales services). Corporate imitation and innovation processes are a primary condition to compete in global markets and entail identifying and proposing design management products with 'new' features that change over time and space. Product design defines the functions that qualify a product or service to identify and organise the distinctive specifications of the firm's offer, and develop goods and services based on the analysis of competition and demand needs (customer satisfaction). Competitive design management can be oriented towards different forms of flexible production (The Fourth Industrial Revolution), specifically related to products based on planned obsolescence, total quality, or a rigid competitive philosophy of zero defects.

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Section: Competitive Design Management In Global Firmsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Planned Obsolescence, Total Quality, Zero Defects and Global Competition

Brondoni

2018

Symphonya. Emerging Issues in Management

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“…Christiaans [28] analyzes the design process with a descriptive approach by a decision-making framework. The framework consists of two levels: Macro level analyzes of the design strategy using problem and solution orientations, and a microlevel where the decision mode and the decision strategy are analyzed.…”

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Analysis of design meetings for understanding software architecture decisions

Pedraza-García

Astudillo

Correal

2014

2014 XL Latin American Computing Conference (CLEI)

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Software architecture teams use verbal and graphical contributions to evaluate and select alternative design decisions. Usually the rationale behind these decisions is not recorded in the architecture document itself, and many contributions and rationale are lost to future reviewers and builders. This article describes Design Verbal Interventions Analysis (DVIA), which applies verbal protocol analysis to transcribed meetings logs to classify verbal interventions as either issue, orientation, mandatory orientation, request for clarification, explanation, disagreement, constraint, assessment, choice, or assumption. The approach is illustrated with a case study using transcribed meetings from undergraduate student teams designing a commandand-control center for a pan-Andean spatial project. The study shows that much of the interaction supports coevolution of problem understanding and solution framing, with designers engaged in simultaneous resolution of several design issues, following a cyclical structure. This strategy will allow to retrieve software architecture decisions from architecture team meetings.

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“…requirements related to user interaction and usability. Christiaans and Almendra (2010) specifically identified that meeting requirements in an integrated manner is a key characteristic of a well balanced design. This need for integrative solutions is pointed by Wallace and Anderson (1993) long ago as a challenge for design teams.…”

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A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Unfamiliar Domains

Perry

Schnaid²

2014

JET

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This paper reports a case study in which two designers [one experienced and one inexperienced] and two experienced educators were observed while designing two chemistry educational interfaces for topics with different levels of complexity. The aim was to observe how the designers and educators would collaborate in unfamiliar domains. Variables related to collaboration and topic misunderstandings were measured. The variables related to topic misunderstanding did not point to an effect of topic complexity. Observations suggest an effect of personality interplay on collaborative construction, regardless of the experience of the professionals and the topic under consideration.

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Accessing decision-making in software design

Cited by 38 publications

References 7 publications

Planned Obsolescence, Total Quality, Zero Defects and Global Competition

Planned Obsolescence, Total Quality, Zero Defects and Global Competition

Analysis of design meetings for understanding software architecture decisions

A Case Study on Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Unfamiliar Domains

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