Optimizing product development projects under asynchronous and aperiodic system-local interactions

Masaki Ogura, Masako Kishida, Ali Yassine

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    Abstract

    Project managers are continuously under pressure to shorten product development durations. One practical approach for reducing the project duration is lessening dependencies between different development components and teams. In this paper, we present an analytical framework for optimally allocating resources to shorten the lead-time of product development projects having a time-varying dependency structure. We build our theoretical framework on a linear system model of product development processes, in which system integration and local development teams exchange information asynchronously and aperiodically. By utilizing a convexity result from matrix theory, we show that optimal resource allocation can be efficiently found by solving a convex optimization problem. We provide an illustrative example to demonstrate the proposed framework. This conference paper is a summary of our recent journal paper (Ogura et al., 2019).

    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of the 21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019
    EditorsHarold Stowe, Tyson R. Browning, Steven D. Eppinger, Jintin Tran, Paulo Montijo
    Pages91-100
    Number of pages10
    ISBN (Electronic)9781912254064
    DOIs
    StatePublished - 2019
    Event21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019 - Monterey, United States
    Duration: 23 Sep 201925 Sep 2019

    Publication series

    NameProceedings of the 21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019

    Conference

    Conference21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019
    Country/TerritoryUnited States
    CityMonterey
    Period23/09/1925/09/19

    Keywords

    • Project management
    • Project planning
    • Resource allocation systems
    • Resource management
    • Time/cost/performance trade-offs

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