Predicting technical communication in product development organizations

Morelli, Mark D.; Eppinger, Steven D.; Gulati, Rosaline K.

doi:10.1109/17.403739

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“…The decision of which technological approach to pursue is often supported by two more focused activities: concept generation and concept selection. Most textbooks on design and development discuss concept generation (Foster et al 1985a, 1985b) (Terweisch et al 1998) (Griffin and Page 1996) What will be the physical (Allen 1977) (Morelli et al 1995) Ullman (1997), Ulrich and Eppinger (2000), and Urban and Hauser (1993). A common theme is that a wide variety of concepts from a wide variety of sources be considered.…”

Section: Concept Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature

2001

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T his paper is a review of research in product development, which we define as the transformation of a market opportunity into a product available for sale. Our review is broad, encompassing work in the academic fields of marketing, operations management, and engineering design. The value of this breadth is in conveying the shape of the entire research landscape. We focus on product development projects within a single firm. We also devote our attention to the development of physical goods, although much of the work we describe applies to products of all kinds. We look inside the "black box" of product development at the fundamental decisions that are made by intention or default. In doing so, we adopt the perspective of product development as a deliberate business process involving hundreds of decisions, many of which can be usefully supported by knowledge and tools. We contrast this approach to prior reviews of the literature, which tend to examine the importance of environmental and contextual variables, such as market growth rate, the competitive environment, or the level of top-management support.

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Section: Concept Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature

2001

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“…Researchers at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston introduced new dimensions in the analysis such as tasks [27], information flow [28], product parameters, product functionality, and product architecture [2], people and organizationalbased analysis [29], [30]. An extensive DSM literature summary is presented by Browning [31].…”

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The use of dependence structure matrix and domain mapping matrix in managing uncertainty in multiple project situations

Danilovic

Sandkull

2005

International Journal of Project Management

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Development of complex products is performed in multi-project environment in which it is crucial to explore interdependencies and manage the uncertainty with the information exchange and the understanding of the context. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a dependence structure matrix and domain mapping matrix approach that enables the systematic identification of interdependencies and relations in a Multi-project environment. These approaches enables clarifications of assumptions, the tractability of dependencies, explores the information needed within and between different departments, projects and people. This creates a transparency and enables the synchronization of actions through transformation of information and exploration of assumptions within and between domains. The outcomes of this process are situational visibility creating direction and accountability and the learning that takes place through communicating, reflecting, understanding, and acting.

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“…A DSM highlights the inherent structure of a design by examining the dependencies between its component elements in a square matrix [13,15]. Morelli et al [16] describe a method to predict and measure coordination-type of communication within a product development organization. They compare predicted and actual communications in order to learn, to what extent an organizations communication patterns can be anticipated.…”

Section: Design Structure Matrix and Cost Metricsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects

Amrit

Hillegersberg

2010

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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Abstract. The effect of software coupling on the quality of software has been studied quite widely since the seminal paper on software modularity by Parnas [1]. However, the effect of the increase in software coupling on the coordination of the developers has not been researched as much. In commercial software development environments there normally are coordination mechanisms in place to manage the coordination requirements due to software dependencies. But, in the case of Open Source software such coordination mechanisms are harder to implement, as the developers tend to rely solely on electronic means of communication. Hence, an understanding of the changing coordination requirements is essential to the management of an Open Source project. In this paper we study the effect of changes in software coupling on the coordination requirements in a case study of a popular Open Source project called JBoss.

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Predicting technical communication in product development organizations

Cited by 110 publications

References 14 publications

Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature

Product Development Decisions: A Review of the Literature

The use of dependence structure matrix and domain mapping matrix in managing uncertainty in multiple project situations

Coordination Implications of Software Coupling in Open Source Projects

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