@inproceedings{ff635f027b58431fb2be2d3794404718,
title = "Optimizing product development projects under asynchronous and aperiodic system-local interactions",
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).",
keywords = "Project management, Project planning, Resource allocation systems, Resource management, Time/cost/performance trade-offs",
author = "Masaki Ogura and Masako Kishida and Ali Yassine",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2019 Lehrstuhl f{\"u}r Produktentwicklung und Leichtbau.; 21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019 ; Conference date: 23-09-2019 Through 25-09-2019",
year = "2019",
doi = "10.35199/dsm2019.13",
language = "English",
series = "Proceedings of the 21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019",
pages = "91--100",
editor = "Harold Stowe and Browning, {Tyson R.} and Eppinger, {Steven D.} and Jintin Tran and Paulo Montijo",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 21st International Dependency and Structure Modeling Conference, DSM 2019",
}